Fat_Elvis 2005-12-10
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I found this book to be extremely misleading. First off Montgomery is not a Psychologist; he is a Literature instructor that edited David Keirsey's Please Understand Me II.
I found that much of his research to be impractical. He was drawing conclusions from literary figures in history and not from Psychological research studies. If I hadn't paid what I did for the book I likely would have laughed when he started writing "if Idealists in literature seem to be easily broken in body, they suffer as well from various psychosomatic afflictions" (page 31) and then concluded by listing off various idealist characters in literature with psychosomatic afflictions. How does this have any bearing on reality whatsoever?
What frustrated me is that Montgomery simply used other literary works and the work of David Kerisey to write this book for him. Many paragraphs were summaries of idealist character sketches in literature and references to other idealist characters in literature. Frankly, the book is peppered with them to the point that it becomes repetitive and tedius.
Maybe because Montgomery is an idealist himself he projects what his audience will want due to his own interests. It almost seems like this book is a Pygmalion Project in and of itself by he how draws too much from his own school of thought to explain the Psychology of Personality. One would have to be an extreme idealist with a Master in English and extremely little common sense to agree with what is stated in this book.
There is a reason why the basis of Psychology is evidence based on statistical research; and not the dissection of individuals who have only existed in fiction rather than reality.
