MBTI's *correlation* with other, actually reliable tests does not mean the underlying methodology is good. It means they happened to stumble on some useful types while under very erroneous assumptions.
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She wanted to diagnose-from-a-distance other neighborhood kids and intervene in their lives based on her diagnosis and he told her she absolutely could not do that and her desire to do so reflected a dangerously utopian worldview
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It's not "capitalism" that "corrupted" her ideas, or if it is the corruption goes all the way to the original root, the desire to simplify people into solvable problems
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I certainly would agree that it is not a shortcut to analysis or any type of psychotherapy. Jungian ideas themselves have their flaws. And they have been used to advance predatory capitalism, Right Wing politics & racism. See Jordan Peterson.
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It's not a defense of Jung it's saying that even someone as high-handed and arrogant about the power of psychology as one of Freud's disciples found Myers too arrogant for his tastes
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