There have been different schools of thought among Enneagram teachers and their understandings are not always in agreement. Naranjo's theories were also influenced by earlier teachings about personality by George Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way tradition in the first half of the 20th century.Īs a typology, the Enneagram defines nine personality types (sometimes called 'enneatypes'), which are represented by the points of a geometric figure called an enneagram, which indicate some of the principal connections between the types.
Īlthough the origins and history of ideas associated with the Enneagram of Personality are disputed, contemporary approaches are principally derived from the teachings of the Bolivian psycho-spiritual teacher Oscar Ichazo from the 1950s and the Chilean psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo from the 1970s.
The Enneagram of Personality, or simply the Enneagram, is a model of the human psyche which is principally understood and taught as a typology of nine interconnected personality types.
