Enneagram

The Enneagram (or Enneagon) is a nine-pointed diametric figure used to indicate - among various other applications - a dynamic model of nine distinct yet interconnected psychological types (usually called 'personality types' or 'character types'). The types can be understood as unconsciously developing from nine archetypes.

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As a typology model it is often called the Enneagram of Personality but it is mostly just called the Enneagram which can create confusion with other ways of understanding and using the Enneagram figure.

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Although usually understood as being a personality typology others understand it as a model of archetypal character types. Theoretical distinctions between 'personality' and 'character' require clarification by those who make them.

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Contemporary ways of understanding and describing the Enneagram have developed from various traditions of spiritual wisdom and modern psychological insight. Some people understand the Enneagram primarily in spiritual or mystical ways whilst other understand it primarily in psychological terms.

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