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Dr. David Keirsey

Dr. David W. Keirsey is a veteran personologist specializing in the pragmatics of coaching children, parents, and spouses to decrease conflict and to increase cooperation. Late in his long career he set up a training program for those who sought to learn how to intervene correctively in the character defense games that children play with parents and teachers, and that spouses play with each other. His first book, the best selling book "Please Understand Me" had sold over two million copies. His completely rewritten version, an internationally bestselling book, Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence has been translated into Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese, to name a few.

Dr. Keirsey is a clinical psychologist who worked for public schools for 20 years as a corrective interventionist, and followed this with 11 years training therapists and pathologists (California State University) in the art of changing dysfunctional behavior in children and adults. His students and colleagues agree that drugging active children is unnecessary, having achieved uniform success in using the logical consequences rule and the abuse it -- lose it method. He joins the thousands of psychotherapists in America in speaking out against the epidemic abuse of our children by those who do not understand how to teach self control to them.

He just finished his new book, to be published soon, called Brains and Career, which systematically examines Human Action: the Who-Role Playing, the How-Work Methods, and the Why-Job Outcomes. He is now back to trying to complete his book on Madness (psychopathology), Dark Escape, which he has worked on and off, for about 50 years.

An article on him from his alma mater

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