Dr. David W. Keirsey is a veteran personologist specializing in the pragmatics of coaching children, parents, and spouses to decrease conflict and to increase cooperation. Late in his long career he set up a training program for those who sought to learn how to intervene correctively in the character defense games that children play with parents and teachers, and that spouses play with each other. His best selling book Please Understand Me had sold over two million copies. He finished his book, a completely rewritten and expanded version, Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence.
Dr. Keirsey is a clinical psychologist who worked for public schools for 20 years as a corrective interventionist, and followed this with 11 years training therapists and pathologists (California State University) in the art of changing dysfunctional behavior in children and adults. His students and colleagues agree that drugging active children is unnecessary, having achieved uniform success in using the logical consequences rule and the abuse it — lose it method. He joins the thousands of psychotherapists in America in speaking out against the epidemic abuse of our children by those who do not understand how to teach self control to them.
He is currently working on his new book, Temperament and Talent, which examines the complex interaction between our inborn preferences, what we practice, our natural talents, and our developed skills.
Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types 5th Ed.
Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence