This is a popular practitioner text that fixed the modern nine type descriptive vocabulary of the Enneagram now in general use, and this record holds it plainly at the tier appropriate to a self-authored personality system rather than to independent psychological scholarship: Don Riso and Russ Hudson's own typology, however influential it became, is their own developed framework rather than an outside verified account of personality. Use it to document the content and origin of this specific nine type system as its own authors set it out; it is not evidence that the Enneagram accurately describes or predicts personality, a claim this primary practitioner text does not itself attempt to establish through outside testing.
Facts
Citation
AuthorDon Richard Riso and Russ Hudson
PublisherHoughton Mifflin
Boston, 1987 first edition (ISBN 0-395-40575-0, the Houghton Mifflin ISBN prefix), per the publisher's own catalogue and independent bookseller records. Publication Year1987
Source Typetradition
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson's 1987 book that fixed the modern nine type Enneagram vocabulary in general use, the tradition's own foundational descriptive text rather than independent psychological research on it. NotesThe book that fixed the modern nine-type descriptive vocabulary in general use.
Claims Backed By This Source (70 claims)
This source backs 70 claims across the atlas. As facts: 31 well-attested, 1 open question. As cited relationships: 22 holds. Plus 16 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Enneagram Types, 36 claims: 9 well-attested, 18 holds, 9 general references.
- Historical Figures, 14 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 open question, 4 holds, 2 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Open Questions, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Articles, 3 claims: 3 well-attested.
- Enneagram Triads, 3 claims: 3 general references.
- Disciplines, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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