Australian Psychological Type Review 13:1 (August 2011)
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Australian Psychological Type Review Vol 13 No 1 August 2011 There and back again Eve Delunas reviews Susan Nash Meredith Fuller profiles Peter Malone Ian Ball at ICAP Nicole Gruel at AusAPT’s national conference Philip Kerr reports from the European Type Conference Peter Malone reviews the Australian film The Waiting City Peter Geyer reports on Ty p e in Cultural History and Consilience, reviews Angelina Bennet’s Shadows of Type, and freewheels on social incongruities in modern times Australian Psychological Type Review Published by the Australian Association for ISSN 1442-0716 Psychological Type Inc, www.ausapt.org.au Nicole Gruel | AusAPT’s National Conference Edited and designed by Philip L Kerr (INTP) Volume Scenes from our 2010 conference in Sydney ............ 25 13 Printed by Webbs Printing, QLD Number 1 [email protected] August 2011 About us Read about it The Australian Psychological Type Review is the Philip L Kerr | Walk to the Paradise Gardens national periodical of the Australian Association for Psychological Type Inc. We publish articles on Editorial ............................................................................................................................................... 2 psychological type and related topics. The Review is published twice a year for distribution Peter Geyer | Getting there to AusAPT members, international type associations Book review: Angelina Bennett, The Shadows of Type ................................................. 21 and selected libraries. Contact us at [email protected], or at Eve Delunas | An extraordinary guidebook 54 Koorong St, The Gap QLD 4061, Australia. Book review: Susan Nash, Let’s Split The Difference .................................................... 43 Contributions In my life If you’d like to contribute, contact the Editor, Phil Meredith Fuller | A man called Peter Kerr, at [email protected], or after hours on 07 3300 3164. Psychwords: In conversation with Peter Malone ............................................................ 29 We prefer articles in plain English, active voice and first person. We use Australian language and Peter Geyer | Pumping up the volume style, based on the Macquarie Dictionary and the Freewheelin’: Social incongruities in modern times .............................................................. 37 Australian Government Style Manual. Word lengths are negotiable. We reserve the right Peter Malone | The waiting game to edit contributions for mechanical accuracy and Film review: The Waiting City, directed by Claire McCarthy .......................................... 41 clarity. In–text citations are not required, but please include a list of your references. Australian Association for Come together Psychological Type Inc Ian Ball | Type in a cast of thousands International Conference of Applied Psychology, Melbourne ................................................ 3 Peter Geyer | Tar–heeled Seeking consilience in North Carolina ................................................................................ 7 Philip L Kerr | Ich bin ein Berliner European Type Conference, Berlin .......................................................................................... 15 Opinions expressed by Review contributors are not necessarily those of AusAPT Inc or the Editor. Cover: AusAPT national conference, Sydney (photos by Meredith Fuller): ‘Myers-Briggs Type Indicator’ and ‘MBTI’ are registered Susan Nash; Peter Malone; Ian Ball; Nicole Gruel and Jill Chivers. trademarks of the Myers-Briggs Foundation, USA. Walk to the Paradise Gardens The flash of recognition was instant and Their dislocation to Hydra’s alien culture Philip L Kerr intuitive. The ‘pitted slopes’, ‘soaring up created marital discord for the Johnstons, from the jewelled crescent of the port’, exacerbated by George’s TB. ‘As he fined told me that the Aegean island stretched down alarmingly in weight’, Clift recalled, out below the plane was Hydra, precisely ‘he also fined down in character, persona, as Charmian Clift described it in her diary or whatever you call it’. Clift felt she was This walk he had to make for of expatriate life, Peel Me A Lotus. ‘married to someone else entirely’. Miranda’s wedding, after all, I was heading to Berlin for the European ‘Someone else entirely’ can erupt in times Type Conference, one of a trilogy of type of stress. Peter Geyer reviews Angelina could not be considered too events featured in this issue of the Review. Bennet’s book The Shadows of Type. Peter taxing — hardly more than a Nicole Gruel offers a retrospective on also reports on a type research and theory hundred yards up the street AusAPT’s national conference in Sydney, forum in North Carolina, and freewheels and Ian Ball reports on a symposium at on the theme of social incongruities. the International Conference of Applied George Johnston, My Brother Jack was published to critical Psychology in Melbourne. A Cartload of Clay acclaim in 1964, prompting the Johnstons Susan Nash was prominent in Berlin and to return to Sydney. By 1969, George’s in Sydney. Eve Delunas reviews Susan’s health had so deteriorated that walking Let’s Split The Difference, a book compiled to the end of his street for his daughter’s from her columns in this very publication. wedding became an ordeal. The second book in his ‘Meredith trilogy’, Clean Straw Charmian Clift and George Johnston fled For Nothing, came out later that year. to Hydra in 1955 to write. Clift finished Clift never read it: fearing humiliation from her semiautobiographical novel Walk To the fictionalised account of their troubled The Paradise Gardens there, and sat at her marriage, she took her own life. Johnston husband’s feet as he wrote his own semi- outlived her by a year. In the last book in autobiography, My Brother Jack. Stricken his trilogy, A Cartload of Clay, he searched with tuberculosis, Johnston’s mind drifted for meaning in the threads of his life: back to his early childhood: ‘I set myself the task of trying to remember a street in Melbourne I used to walk along’. ... he had to try very hard now to work things out. To try to plot the arabesque that linked The tale of his alter ego, David Meredith, everything together. unfolds in the streets around Elsternwick. Glen Eira Road scores a mention. That’s On the 40th anniversary of Johnston’s where you’ll find the Epicentre, a hub for death, I flew off to an island for my own Melbourne’s type community and a home daughter’s wedding—my daughter Jac. I, for Meredith Fuller. Meredith launches too, walked a hundred yards: not down a a new series, PsychWords, with a profile street, but through a paradise garden to a of type veteran Peter Malone. beach by a lagoon. My introverted thinking Peter Malone himself reviews the film is typically caught up in trying to ‘plot the Philip L Kerr (INTP) is the editor of arabesque that links everything together’. the Australian Psychological Type The Waiting City, an examination of the challenges faced by an Australian couple That day, however, I was for once wholly Review. in the moment. [email protected] dislocated into an alien culture. 2 Australian Psychological Type Review Vol 13 No. 1 August 2011 Type in a cast of thousands Report of a symposium presented at the 27th International Congress of Applied Psychology A total of 3381 participants attended the Ian Ball: International Congress of Applied Why is psychological type Psychology in Melbourne in July 2010. worth another look? About half were international delegates from 67 different countries. In recent years there have been serious ICAP 2010 presented an impressive sci- efforts to strengthen the measuring pro- entific program, including 27 state-of-the- cess, resulting in increased reliability and art lectures, 39 keynote addresses and 243 construct validity. Reliability generalisat- symposia. There were also 38 workshops, ion has been convincingly demonstrated, 22 expert panel discussions, 15 debates and with strong internal consistency and test– forums, 595 individual oral presentations, retest reliability estimates. 550 electronic posters and 690 brief oral Recent forms of both main instruments— presentations, so there was plenty of choice the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) for delegates, with up to 32 events occurring and Majors Psychological Type Inventory simultaneously. (PTI)—now feature item response theory Ian L Ball The six-day event was held at the new, yielding four factors as distinct and well- impressive, technologically-advanced defined constructs. Melbourne Convention Centre, right by Additionally, advances in type theory such the Yarra River in an area called South as the identification of Interaction Styles, Wharf, reflecting its maritime history. linking of type with archetypes, and the The sailing ship Polly Woodside floats Psychological type— exploration of five facets for each of the proudly outside the Centre. it’s worth another look! four preferences, add significantly to face AusAPT life member Ian Ball convened validity for end users, as well as increased a 90-minute type symposium, bringing opportunities to recognise differences in together four speakers and a discussant to the expression of type. showcase developments in type. This was Research has indicated that although type a brave initiative, given that type struggles Ian Ball (ISTJ) is an honorary fellow at and trait explanations share some common to get adequate recognition in mainstream Deakin University where he manages variance, they are best regarded as differ-