This new book makes a groundbreaking contribution to the self-help field. These moving Releases and Affirmations offer a profound psychological inventory of our inner pain and our personal strengths. They will be useful in all forms of Recovery, such as Twelve Step programs and Inner Child and Codependency work. Anyone already using Risco's books will find these meditations an invaluable new tool for their self-development.

Don Richard Riso, M.A., is the most widely published and the bestselling author of books on the Enneagram. This is the revised and expanded edition of the classic on understanding the human personality--more than 150,000 copies sold! In addition to updating the descriptions of the nine personality types, this book uncovers the Core Dynamics, or Levels of Development, within each type.

Offers profiles of nine personality types, tells how to avoid misidentifications, and offers advice on becoming aware of one's own personality type.

The leading experts in the field, Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson have set the standard for determining personality type using the enneagram. Their studies of this ancient symbol and their progress in determining type with increasing accuracy are known, taught, and emulated worldwide.