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PERSONALITY TEST – FULL VERSION

Mark each question on a scale of 1-10. If your client struggles with any of them, then
you can assist by enlarging on the theme presented by the question. The results have been
shown over and again to be astonishingly accurate.

1. How good are you at ‘sticking to your guns’?

2. How readily do you ‘speak your mind’?
3. How good are you at taking charge?
4. How methodical or fussy are you?
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5. How much do you like to be liked?
6. How much do you try to protect the feelings of others?
7. How easy-going or tolerant are you?
8. How flexible, or indecisive, can you be?
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9. How much do you like to stand out from the crowd?
10. How good are you at being the centre of attention?
11. How expressively excitable or enthusiastic can you be?
12. How spontaneous or impulsive are you likely to be?

The first group of questions (1-4) assesses Resolute Organisational (RO) potentials; the
second looks at the Intuitive Adaptable (IA) traits, while the third is concerned with the
Charismatic Evidential (CE) personality. Add the ‘scores’ of each group together, giving 3
totals. Add those together and divide that total by 100, calling the answer: ‘T’. Now, if you
divide the total of each group in turn by ‘T’, you will find the percentage of each group in any
one individual.

Quickly and accurately assessing your client’s true personality allows you to:
(1) Use the most suitable induction method.
(2) More easily understand their behaviour during therapy.
(3) More easily recognise the onset of the abreactive state.
(4) Understand more readily the likely type of emotional work you will find.
(5) See at a glance some areas that need ‘working on’.

Conflicts
Now we will examine the individual conflicts as shown by the personality test; these
are mostly between the IA part of self, which is mainly responsive to the idealistic dictates of
the Superego, or conscience, and the RO and CE parts, both of which are ‘driven’ by the
demands of the Id, or instinctive self. The RO is concerned with survival and control, while
the CE is focussed upon pleasure and gratification.
In fact, it is not each individual conflict that is particularly important; the point of the
questionnaire, in this respect, is to highlight incongruence between the different parts of
personality – between the RO and IA parts of self, for instance. Those individual answers,
though, serve as focal points to the overall conflict and allow us a fast way in to the psyche,
which is especially useful for analytical or regression therapies.
Before we go further, we need to understand what is shown when we examine the
difference between the answers for conflicting questions. The maximum difference would be
9, where there is a score of 10 on one question and 1 on its opposite. It follows that the lower
the difference, the greater the conflict between the attributes; but when the total of the two
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scores is low, this will mean something quite different from when the total is somewhere near
the maximum possible of 20. A healthy score is a total of 10 or more and a difference of at
least 4; in that situation we can be fairly certain that there is no conflict revealed and we can
move on to the next pair of questions.
A difference of more than 4 is not necessarily an indicator that there is no conflict
involved with the concepts presented by those questions; when one of the scores is 3 or
under, that can be an indicator of possible repression.
Since conflict is centred around the IA/Superego responses, the questions are
presented with that group first.

Question 5. How much do you like to be liked?

First conflict: Question 1. How good are you at sticking to your guns?
These are the base questions for the IA and RO groups and any incongruence here
may have a profound effect upon the personality, as comparing the concept of each question
readily reveals. ‘Sticking to your guns’ when ideas, thoughts, etc. are being challenged is
often not easy for an individual who has a profound need to be liked; on the other hand, a true
Warrior personality is unlikely to be excessively anxious about being liked.
Second conflict: Question 9. How much do you like to stand out from the crowd?
This is the base question for the CE personality and any conflict here will be felt
severely. For the IA personality, standing out too far from the crowd can be uncomfortable,
whilst for the CE, feelings of needing to be liked can be restrictive to desired behaviour –
which this personality hates. The CE personality is normally disinterested in whether or not
s/he is liked, as long as others are impressed by his/her behaviour, presence, appearance, etc.

Question 6. How much do you try to protect the feelings of others?

First conflict: Question 2. How readily do you ‘speak your mind?’
There is scarcely any need to enlarge here, since the attitudes are almost completely
opposite. The true Settler tends to externalise a great deal and therefore seeks to protect
others from hurt; the Warrior (question 2) is notoriously unconcerned about how others feel.
Where similar answers are given to both questions, then it clearly indicates either
incongruence or wishful thinking – many Settlers are prone to this, due to feelings of
allowing others to take too much advantage.
Second conflict: Question 10. How good are you at being the centre of attention?
Not so much conflict revealed in this pairing, but still a somewhat incongruent
situation. Somebody who protects the feelings of others is not very likely to enjoy being the
centre of attention, lest it should make others feel left out, while the Nomad would just enjoy
the limelight and not even be aware that anybody could feel left out of things. Similar
answers here could well be due to the Nomad’s tendency to sometimes say what sounds
good.

Question 7. How easy-going or tolerant are you?

First conflict: Question 3. How good are you at taking charge?
If one situation exists in the psyche, it is going to be very uncomfortable with the
other until past conflicts have been resolved. Generally, one of the situations will be nothing
more than how that client believes s/he should be or would like to be. In general, a ‘take
charge’ personality is unlikely to be truly easy-going, and vice versa. Conflict here will often
be revealed in a tendency to continually find fault with the plans of others, including
officialdom or other authority figures.
Second conflict: Question 11. How expressively enthusiastic or excitable can you be?

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Someone who is easy-going will be unlikely to be particularly excitable, though

enthusiasm is a possibility. Excitation arises out of the fact that an imminent event stimulates
the nervous system into an anticipatory and appropriate behaviour pattern. An easy-going
person is usually so because they tend not to possess the vividness of imagination that is
needed to fire such excitement. Complaints about being taken advantage of is a one of the
likely results of this sort of conflict.

Question 8. How flexible, or indecisive, can you be?

First conflict: Question 4. How methodical or fussy are you?
Indecisive people are not usually particularly fussy or methodical; fussy people are
most unlikely to be flexible in their thought process. Methodical types find it nearly
impossible to be flexible and flexible types tend to believe that being methodical equates to
being boring. Fussy people are fussy because they know how they want things to be, so they
are not likely to by indecisive. Irrational dissatisfaction with self and achievements of self is
often manifest where this conflict is present.
Second conflict: Question 12. How spontaneous or impulsive are you likely to be?
Similar answers to question 8 and 4 are not particularly important, since it does not
reveal a specific conflict; but similar scores for 4 and 12 is a different kettle of fish
altogether! This is sometimes found in border-line psychosis but is more commonly a form of
denial in excessively CE or RO personality groups. Feeling that other people do not take
them seriously – sometimes justified – is a common manifestation here.

There is a host of other information revealed by the test: some of it is shown here,
with more being discussed during the second day of the workshop.

Indigenous shyness/introversion may be shown when there is a total ‘raw’ score

(before conversion to percentages) of 65 or less. It can also indicate repression, under certain
circumstances (see later). Introversion is indicated where the scores are low in each group –
here, change is unlikely; shyness tends to produce one group with a noticeably lower score
than the other two, and here, we can quite easily produce change. Shyness is often not
immediately obvious.
Extroversion where there is a total ‘raw’ score of 90 or more. This does not mean that
the individual will have few problems – just that those problems will be expressed more
freely. Any abreactive state will appear more dramatic with this personality, though may well
mean less.
Incongruent thought/behaviour can be illustrated by the fact that your client’s
behaviour pattern seems not to match the major group indicated by the test (the answers
indicating IA but behaviour appearing more as RO, for instance.). This produces the
uncomfortable situation where the individual cannot seem to ‘fit in’ anywhere, among other
problems. There is another aspect of the test that can highlight this situation: Questions 1, 5, 9
are base questions testing for the major motivation of (in order) RO, IA, CE. These are
apparently benign questions with a slant towards making the question a positive attribute,
since there is an echo in all of them towards the basic personality traits of the type:
The RO is asked about strength and resolve.
The IA is asked about acceptance by their peers.
The CE is asked if s/he has charisma.
As a result of this framing, the responses are likely to be fairly indicative of the true
underlying personality, so the answers should be reflected in the test answers overall, i.e., if
the outcome is IA, RO, CE, then question 5 should have a higher score than 1, which should
have a higher score than 9. Where this is not the case, it is likely that we are looking at an
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imprinted version of whatever seems to be the personality shown – a learned behaviour

pattern which is at odds with the true instincts. The answers to these questions can reveal the
necessary direction for the resolution of conflict.
Complex personality type is indicated by equal, or nearly equal, scores for each group.
Where the score is above 80 or so, this is a potentially confident and balanced personality
who may well have only presented with a minor problem. Where it is 65 or lower, we are
looking at someone with no direction in life, the vacillating individual who has no real idea of
how s/he would like to be or should be; your main task here may well be to keep this person
in therapy long enough for you to be of help.

Extra Information
Besides an awareness of your client’s true personality type, you now have access to a mass of
information about him/her which will allow you to:

1. Choose the best and most effective induction method.

2. Accurately assess the best therapy model.
3. Recognise the likely existence of repression.
4. Recognise the likely existence of cumulative trauma.
5. Recognise the likely existence of disavowal/denial.
6. During the analytical process, guide your client to likely conflict areas.
7. Anticipate the approach of abreaction.
8. Readily recognise recalls likely to be associated with conflict.
9. More readily create transference.
10. Deal with resistance issues more effectively.

We will look at each of these issues:

Inductions
By selecting the best induction for the personality type, you will achieve a better state
of hypnosis in a shorter time than otherwise. This is particularly important where the RO and
CE individuals are concerned, though as far as the IA is concerned, you can use just about
any type of induction you prefer.

Assessing the therapy model

If you have an IA client, then unless s/he has presented for a simple matter (driving
test fears, anxiety concerning an important occasion, stopping smoking, etc.) you will
definitely need to find the cause of the presenting symptom in some way – the complexity of
the type almost guarantees that there will be unresolved issues connected with it. Using RCT
techniques will provide a more thorough and probably slightly faster therapy.
It is with the RO type that RCT really comes into its own. The RO is not good usually
good at any form of free association, and their conflicts tend to have a slightly more logical
slant than those of the IA. When the symptom is relatively straightforward (Aerophobia, for
example) then Regression, as opposed to analysis, may well be the way to go here. When the
problem is complex – Aerophobia, but only when going on holiday, for example – then
Analysis is indicated, though there will need to be interaction based around the answers to the
questionnaire.
CE individuals respond well to imaginative work, but tend to have a low boredom
threshold, so Regression, because it is more interactive and tends to be faster, is indicated,
even when the problem is complex. The CE tends not to have a complex emotional life and is

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‘me centred’ so it is quite easy to excite their symptoms in order to make regression work
effectively.

In all cases, free association should be encouraged when the presenting symptoms are of
a Hysteric nature – even within the regression model. Hysterical illness is characterised by
it’s physical evidence, things like: spontaneous vomiting, sexual difficulties of all sorts, bowel
problems, some asthma, some obesity, manias (Klepto-, Hypo-, Hyper-, Religious, Nympho-,
etc.), in other words a noticeable physical manifestation of conflict. Non-hysteric illness
includes depression, bad temper, phobias, and obsessive thought processes like
Hypochondria, Jealousy, Hatred, etc.
Briefly, physiological symptoms are likely to be hysterical in origin (based on feelings
and imagination with no logic), while emotion-based symptoms may have their origins in a
behavioural response (and therefore be based on a logical thought process of sorts).
There is no black and white division here and some common symptoms – the panic
attack, for example – may well fit into either or both categories.

Repression
Repressed memories are more likely to be of emotions than of events, though it is very
likely that parts of event chains will have been ‘buried’ or forgotten. I often explain that
repressed memories are like islands in our minds – they are isolated from other events
because they were so different, but that we can approach them via our emotional states.
Repression is strongly suggested where there is a score on any one question of 2 or less, the
repression being obviously associated with the behaviour pattern in question.

Cumulative Trauma
This is brought about by a form of brainwashing, life or people teaching the individual
that s/he is a failure/stupid/inferior/unimportant by continually insisting that this is the case.
Once this belief system is established, the individual concerned will behave as if it is so
because s/he will KNOW that they cannot do anything else. Thus they will continually
strengthen the belief by confirmation. Usually, they will not even notice any ‘evidence’ to the
contrary, or will ignore/deny it. Cumulative Trauma is indicated by any or all of: scattered
scores, i.e. noticeable inconsistency; consistent low scores (3-5) in any one group (shyness
often being the result); thought incongruence; low scores on base questions (1,5,9); denial.

Disavowal/denial
The individual has, in his/her early years, done what s/he perceived as a bad thing. The
event has been all-but forgotten (though not repressed) and their behaviour pattern or
symptom has been developed as a kind of justification, or as protection against repeating the
transgression, or possibly to disguise the fact that they could ever have done such a thing. The
process is consciously designed to protect integrity. Disavowal/denial is indicated by an
excessively high percentage of any one personality group. Not many individuals achieve
higher than 41%; 45% would be high and over 50% is excessive, probably leading to some
form of obsession. The denial will be associated with the personality group generally; RO is
probably denying that vulnerability ever existed, IA that s/he could ever be anything other
than caring, respectable, nice or whatever, and CE that they ever needed the support of
another. The effects of this situation are uncomfortable:
The RO character is overbearing, even menacing, and may seem, or even be, psychotic.
The IA will be weepy and melancholic with little or no personal resolve or ‘moral fibre’.
The CE will be full of noise and bluster and is likely to exhibit an alarming lack of
responsibility.
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Guiding to conflict
During analysis/regression, where our client is unable to ‘focus’ on anything, we can
guide them by using one of the conflict situations they have revealed. Start by basing the
questions around the responses in the IA section of the questionnaire, i.e. “When did you
learn that it was important to you to be liked?” You can also ask How, Who taught you, Why,
Where. Later, if necessary, take the conflict related to the major group (if that is IA, second
major), i.e. “Where did you learn that you had to stick to your guns?” Used properly, this
technique can often produce startling results.

Anticipating Abreaction
The type of abreactive states listed in the personality analysis make it easy to know
when to keep your client’s mind just where it is, though you should say nothing unless they
show signs of trying to ‘shake it off’ which they will sometimes do with a physical action.

Recognising Recalls
The understanding of your client’s personality type makes it easier to spot those
recalls which need fuller exploration than might have been given.
For the RO, look at issues concerned with loss of respect/dignity/integrity or any sort
of ‘attack’ – being frightened, picked on, humiliated, punished, bullied, etc.
For the IA, investigate anything concerned with emotional states, predominantly guilt,
shame, and injustice issues.
For the CE, explore anything concerned with image issues and loss of freedom or
things that they really did not want to do/face. These can seem to be quite minor events.

Transference
This is obviously easier when you understand your client’s personality group; you
start with the advantage of knowing more about the way they think than they believe you do.
It is easy to create empathy with another when you know what they like!

Resistance
Every client will show it at some point; knowing what they like in life can help you
get them through it. Work towards: (a) the IA feeling how it will be when they are more
comfortable with themselves; (b) the RO planning what to do once s/he has more control over
his/her life; (c) the CE imagining how it will be when they can start doing things again.

As with all therapy matters, these notes should be taken as a guide, rather than accepted as
an infallible source.

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