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Personality Type Nine: The Peacemaker
The Peaceful, Reassuring, Passive, Repressed Person
| Childhood Origin: |
Connected to parental-figures. |
| Basic Fear: |
Of separation. |
| Basic Desire: |
To have union with other. |
| Healthy Sense of Self: |
I am peaceful. |
| Characteristic Temptation: |
To be too accomodating. |
| Characteristic Vice: |
Sloth in self-remembering. |
| Characteristic Virtue: |
Patience. |
| Hidden Complaint: |
I am content with the way things are, although everyone else is always
pressuring me to change. |
| Key Defense Mechanisms: |
Repression, dissociation, denial. |
Don Richard Riso
Understanding the Enneagram:
The Practical Guide to Personality Types
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990, 288 pages
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