Very interesting look at people and their types. I have in the past undertaken this test and was keen to discover more..

If you're interested in the origins (and shortcomings) of the MBTI personality types tests, this is a very thorough account of its creation and development, based firmly on the lives of its creators, Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers. It is subtitled 'the strange history of Myers-Briggs' and is best in its focus on these women and the cultural context (USA between the wars) in which they developed their ideas. However, it then rather rushes through the rapid rise in the test's popularity from the 1970s, after it had ironically been pretty much discredited scientifically, and nothing much is made of the author's attempts to infiltrate the training of the research centre that oversees its use after the book's beginning. So it didn't fulfil its promise for me, but interesting if you want to find out about the cultural history of social psychology.

This book is described as a memoir but it's not a stand-alone there is also psychologically based too . Yet I for some reason, I just could not get into it at all. For me, it didn't flow.
Thank you to both NetGalley and Harper Collins UK Publishers. For giving me the opportunity to read What's Your Type by Merve Emre. In exchange for my honest unbiased review.

"What's Your Type?"
by Merve Emre

This book is not only the biography of two very interesting women, Isabel Briggs Myers and Katherine Cook Briggs, the developers of the MBTI personality system but also shows how psychology and the definition of personality developed. The book is nice to read, as the author has a great style of telling facts and well-researched content in a story.