http://humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htmThe Portait of the Counselor (INFJ)
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Counselor Idealists are abstract in thought and speech, cooperative in
reaching their goals, and enterprising and attentive in their
interpersonal roles. Counselors focus on human potentials, think in
terms of ethical values, and come easily to decisions. The small number
of this type (little more than 2 percent) is regrettable, since
Counselors have an unusually strong desire to contribute to the welfare
of others and genuinely enjoy helping their companions. They work quite intensely with those
close to them. This type has great depth of
personality; they are themselves complicated, and can understand and
deal with complex issues and people.
Counselors can be hard to
get to know. They have an unusually rich inner life, but they are
reserved and tend not to share their reactions except with those they
trust. With their loved ones, certainly, Counselors are not reluctant
to express their feelings, their face lighting up with the positive
emotions, but darkening like a thunderhead with the negative. Indeed,
because of their strong ability to take into themselves the feelings of
others, Counselors can be hurt rather easily by those around them,
which, perhaps, is one reason why they tend to be private people,
mutely withdrawing from human contact. At the same time, friends who
have known a Counselor for years may find sides emerging which come as
a surprise. Not that they are inconsistent; Counselors value their
integrity a great deal, but they have intricately woven, mysterious
personalities which sometimes puzzle even them.
Counselors have
strong empathic abilities and can become aware of another's emotions or
intentions -- good or evil -- even before that person is conscious of
them. This "mind-reading" can take the form of feeling the hidden
distress or illnesses of others to an extent which is difficult for
other types to comprehend. Even Counselors can seldom tell how they
came to penetrate others' feelings so keenly. Furthermore, the
Counselor is most likely of all the types to demonstrate an ability to
understand psychic phenomena and to have visions of human events, past,
present, or future. What is known as ESP may well be exceptional
intuitive ability-in both its forms, projection and introjection. Such
supernormal intuition is found frequently in the Counselor, and can
extend to people, things, and often events, taking the form of visions,
episodes of foreknowledge, premonitions, auditory and visual images of
things to come, as well as uncanny communications with certain
individuals at a distance.
Mohandas Gandhi, Sidney Poitier, Eleanor Roosevelt,
Jane Goodall, Emily Bronte, Sir Alec Guiness, Carl Jung, Mary Baker
Eddy, Queen Noor are examples of the Counselor Idealist (INFJ).
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