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A review by lydiacatherine
What's Your Type?: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre
Did not finish book.
This started off so well! Mystery... cover ups... intrigue... a secret society of corrupt personality theorists... ? I'm in!
Then... I realised that was just the author's introduction.
I'll admit, the first parts exploring the mother/child relationship was really interesting (and a bit disturbing). It definitely felt like it warranted a gritty Netflix drama.
However... then it fell apart for me. I had been expecting a fiction/journalistic exploration of the measurement yet it mostly appeared to be a historical narrative (in detail, at that) about how it gained popularity at the time. I'm not one for history or biographies, so it wasn't really for me.
I skimmed a few chapters then DNF'd it. Meh.
Then... I realised that was just the author's introduction.
I'll admit, the first parts exploring the mother/child relationship was really interesting (and a bit disturbing). It definitely felt like it warranted a gritty Netflix drama.
However... then it fell apart for me. I had been expecting a fiction/journalistic exploration of the measurement yet it mostly appeared to be a historical narrative (in detail, at that) about how it gained popularity at the time. I'm not one for history or biographies, so it wasn't really for me.
I skimmed a few chapters then DNF'd it. Meh.