She was asked by the centre to undertake a Myers-Briggs “re-education programme” in Manhattan, which cost nearly US$2000.
She and the 25 other participants were told they would learn to “speak type fluently” over the four-day course.
Various rules about “speaking type” were given: the supervisor asked participants to chant after her, “Type never changes!
“Personality is always a series of expressions of oneself that are socially and culturally constructed and constrained,” she says.
“In that case, it doesn’t make sense to talk about your personality changing because it was never something fixed to begin with.
You then make plans about what you might want to do in future, based on your new understanding of your own personality.
Also, she says, it is most likely to be white-collar, affluent people involved in service work who take an MBTI or similar test. »
