Starry Insights: Using the Pseudosciences of Astrology and MBTI to Discover How Childhood Trauma Affects the Development of Personality
Are you yourself? Are you sure? I know I’m not.
The following analysis can be seen as both deeply personal and irreverently invalid.
It makes use of two of the world’s favorite flawed and partially debunked pseudosciences: the Myers-Briggs (Personality) Type Indicator (MBTI) and Astrology to examine the effects of childhood trauma on the development of personality.
The MBTI is the brainchild of Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers.
Despite their lack of qualifications, the mother daughter pair created the MBTI, the most successful and widely used personality test to date. Expert psychologists in the field have described the test as “pretty much meaningless”, “the worst personality test in existence” and “an elaborate Chinese fortune cookie” “disguised astrology masquerading as science”.
Still, perhaps due to its simplicity and the easy to memorize 4 sets of 2 opposing letters assigned to describe personality traits (E/I/, S/N, F/T, J/P), the test is, as one respected psychologist, an expert in the field of…
