About TYPO-SYNTHESIS

Typosynthesis is an integrative approach of holistic psychology that helps individuals to find underlying root issues, discover their deep resources and to walk the path of personal change for improvement in various areas of life: personal, social, professional.

Typosynthesis unites Jungian, Enneagram, Planetary, Homeopathic and other typologies with traditional and spiritual psychologies.

There are many typological models that divide humanity into eight types (or approximately eight types). It can be assumed that they all describe similar types of people. Different typological models have their own useful experience and practice, and can enrich each other. One of the goals of the Typosynthesis project is dialogue between specialists in different typologies and a synthesis of typologies.

Eight-component typological models (and models close to 8)

* Jung's typology has 8 psychological types. (more on this here >>>)
* The Enneagram typology has 9 types. If one looks at the Enneagram through the lens of Jung's typology, one can see that the Intuitive type in the Enneagram is divided into two types: Thinking Intuitive and Feeling Intuitive.
* Planetary typology has a different number of types depending on the author: from 6 to 10.
* The Seven Rays typology has 7 types.
* The Chinese Bagua model has 8 trigrams, which representing both eight kinds of energy and eight character traits.

Homeopaths have made a significant contribution to the development of typology. In homeopathy, treatment is prescribed based on the constitution of a person. Constitutional type includes both physical and psychological characteristics, every constitutional type has a corresponding personality profile. Therefore, in homeopathy, there are many psychological profiles of people — about 20 basic profiles and plenty of others corresponding to the characteristics of various medicines.
Several attempts have been made to systematize all homeopathic types. In 1930, the famous French homeopath Leon Vannier published a book entitled "Typology in Homeopathy," in which he traced all psychological types back to eight prototypes, giving them the names of planets. Combinations of the eight prototypes form different types.
In 1996, Dutch homeopath Jan Scholten published his book, "Homeopathy and the Elements," in which he systematized various psychological types associated with chemical elements using two scales: vertical and horizontal. The horizontal scale (‘series’) corresponds to the horizontal rows of the periodic table and the level of development of different types. The vertical scale (‘stages’) corresponds to the vertical groups of the periodic table and describes different types of people. In other words, the vertical column describes a type of person, and the horizontal row indicates the their level of development. In the expanded form used today, the periodic table has 18 groups (i.e., 18 vertical columns). In the short form, previously used in the United States and post-Soviet countries, the periodic table has 8 main groups (s- and p-block) and 10 subgroups (d-block). Using the short form of the periodic table, we get eight basic types. According to psychological characteristics, the 8 main types in Scholten's system correspond to the eight types of Jung's typology.