Re-Modeling the Mind: Personality in Balance starts with a challenging proposition: what if human personality is best understood by looking first at nature and animals? We know that nature's systems are self-balancing, and we know that insects, animals, birds, and even micro-organisms are born knowing things.

I use Carl Jung's ideas about personality, but in departure from other explanations of Jung, I think that when he said "introversion," he was talking about the parts of our mind that are born "knowing things" the way animals do. Like animals, humans need to know how to...