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The most effective way to help people change is to understand how they adapt their behavior in childhood in response to the adults in their lives. That's the premise on which Vann Joines, PhD, based his book Insight Out: The Six Personality Types That Hold the Key to Success in Your Life and Relationships. Once you understand the personality type that has been at your core since your youth, you can begin to put your best self forward and transform your relationships. After more than 50 years as a psychotherapist, Joines has written an in-depth yet accessible step-by-step guide to achieving personal change and developing the kinds of relationships you desire.

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"""Few books give readers so much ability to understand themselves and those they love. This book is a relationship treasure. Be sure to read it and share it with your inner circle. A deeper understanding will emerge."" -Ellyn Bader, Ph.D. Co-Founder and Co-Director of The Couples Institute and Co-Creator of the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy. ""This book peels back the layers of mystery about the source of suffering and offers a path to joy. After skillfully, brilliantly, and clearly connecting the past with the present as the cause of suffering and achieving insight into how the past creates the present, the author offers specific processes and tactics, that when used by anyone, will help them create a joyful future."" -Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. and Hellen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D. Co-Authors of Doing Imago Relationship Therapy in the Space Between. ""In this beautifully written book, Vann Joines makes the complexity of the human personality and our relationships so clear and simple... The insights available in this book enable us to know more of who we are, how to be the best that we can be, how to understand and transform our relationships, and how to co-create our lives with our partners so that we live with more success and vitality."" - Adrienne Lee, TSTA, Director of The Berne Institute for Transactional Analysis. UK ""...Vann Joines draws on a lifetime of helping others to offer here a book for the lay reader, in which he describes how a combination of temperament, family, childhood, and other lifelong influences shape us and make us the person we are. If you like information about personality types, you will love this well-written and thoughtful book..."" - Charlotte Sills, Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst, Professor of Coaching, Ashridge Business School. Psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice, Co-author of Transactional Analysis: A Relational Perspective, Routledge, 2002 ""Insight Out is a self-help book that provides the essentials readers need to surmount personal limitations. Personality adaptations can be categorized and understood. Dr. Joines shows how the processes of the past lead to the programs of the present and the patterns of the future. Follow the steps in this insightful book and reclaim the life path you were always destined to have."" -Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D. Director, The Milton Erickson Foundation. ""In this informative book, Vann Joines vividly portrays six personality adaptations that describe how individuals manage their lives. In non-pathologizing descriptions, the author presents several stimulating examples of how people have used the concept of ""Personality Adaptations"" to change their behaviors and improve relationships. The book amalgamates a number of Transactional Analysis concepts into an effective model that can be used by every person to transform how they problem solve and engage in relationships."" - Richard Erskine, Ph.D., Certified Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst and Licensed Psychoanalyst; Training Director of the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy, Vancouver, Canada; Author of A Healing Relationship: Commentary on Therapeutic Dialogues, Phoenix Publishing House, 2021"

""Few books give readers so much ability to understand themselves and those they love. This book is a relationship treasure. Be sure to read it and share it with your inner circle. A deeper understanding will emerge."" -Ellyn Bader, Ph.D. Co-Founder and Co-Director of The Couples Institute and Co-Creator of the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy. ""This book peels back the layers of mystery about the source of suffering and offers a path to joy. After skillfully, brilliantly, and clearly connecting the past with the present as the cause of suffering and achieving insight into how the past creates the present, the author offers specific processes and tactics, that when used by anyone, will help them create a joyful future."" -Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. and Hellen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D. Co-Authors of Doing Imago Relationship Therapy in the Space Between. ""In this beautifully written book, Vann Joines makes the complexity of the human personality and our relationships so clear and simple... The insights available in this book enable us to know more of who we are, how to be the best that we can be, how to understand and transform our relationships, and how to co-create our lives with our partners so that we live with more success and vitality."" - Adrienne Lee, TSTA, Director of The Berne Institute for Transactional Analysis. UK ""...Vann Joines draws on a lifetime of helping others to offer here a book for the lay reader, in which he describes how a combination of temperament, family, childhood, and other lifelong influences shape us and make us the person we are. If you like information about personality types, you will love this well-written and thoughtful book..."" - Charlotte Sills, Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst, Professor of Coaching, Ashridge Business School. Psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice, Co-author of Transactional Analysis: A Relational Perspective, Routledge, 2002 ""Insight Out is a self-help book that provides the essentials readers need to surmount personal limitations. Personality adaptations can be categorized and understood. Dr. Joines shows how the processes of the past lead to the programs of the present and the patterns of the future. Follow the steps in this insightful book and reclaim the life path you were always destined to have."" -Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D. Director, The Milton Erickson Foundation. ""In this informative book, Vann Joines vividly portrays six personality adaptations that describe how individuals manage their lives. In non-pathologizing descriptions, the author presents several stimulating examples of how people have used the concept of ""Personality Adaptations"" to change their behaviors and improve relationships. The book amalgamates a number of Transactional Analysis concepts into an effective model that can be used by every person to transform how they problem solve and engage in relationships."" - Richard Erskine, Ph.D., Certified Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst and Licensed Psychoanalyst; Training Director of the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy, Vancouver, Canada; Author of A Healing Relationship: Commentary on Therapeutic Dialogues, Phoenix Publishing House, 2021

Few books give readers so much ability to understand themselves and those they love. This book is a relationship treasure. Be sure to read it and share it with your inner circle. A deeper understanding will emerge. -Ellyn Bader, Ph.D. Co-Founder and Co-Director of The Couples Institute and Co-Creator of the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy. This book peels back the layers of mystery about the source of suffering and offers a path to joy. After skillfully, brilliantly, and clearly connecting the past with the present as the cause of suffering and achieving insight into how the past creates the present, the author offers specific processes and tactics, that when used by anyone, will help them create a joyful future. -Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. and Hellen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D. Co-Authors of Doing Imago Relationship Therapy in the Space Between. In this beautifully written book, Vann Joines makes the complexity of the human personality and our relationships so clear and simple... The insights available in this book enable us to know more of who we are, how to be the best that we can be, how to understand and transform our relationships, and how to co-create our lives with our partners so that we live with more success and vitality. - Adrienne Lee, TSTA, Director of The Berne Institute for Transactional Analysis. UK ...Vann Joines draws on a lifetime of helping others to offer here a book for the lay reader, in which he describes how a combination of temperament, family, childhood, and other lifelong influences shape us and make us the person we are. If you like information about personality types, you will love this well-written and thoughtful book... - Charlotte Sills, Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst, Professor of Coaching, Ashridge Business School. Psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice, Co-author of Transactional Analysis: A Relational Perspective, Routledge, 2002 Insight Out is a self-help book that provides the essentials readers need to surmount personal limitations. Personality adaptations can be categorized and understood. Dr. Joines shows how the processes of the past lead to the programs of the present and the patterns of the future. Follow the steps in this insightful book and reclaim the life path you were always destined to have. -Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D. Director, The Milton Erickson Foundation. In this informative book, Vann Joines vividly portrays six personality adaptations that describe how individuals manage their lives. In non-pathologizing descriptions, the author presents several stimulating examples of how people have used the concept of Personality Adaptations to change their behaviors and improve relationships. The book amalgamates a number of Transactional Analysis concepts into an effective model that can be used by every person to transform how they problem solve and engage in relationships. - Richard Erskine, Ph.D., Certified Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst and Licensed Psychoanalyst; Training Director of the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy, Vancouver, Canada; Author of A Healing Relationship: Commentary on Therapeutic Dialogues, Phoenix Publishing House, 2021

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VANN JOINES, Ph.D., is a Clinical Psychologist and President and Director of the Southeast Institute for Group and Family Therapy in Chapel Hill, NC (www.seinstitute.com). He is an International Psychotherapy Teacher, Trainer, and Supervisor, having taught in over 30 countries. He is Certified as a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst, a Diplomate and Founding Member of the Redecision Therapy Association, a Clinical Fellow and Approved Supervisor of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, a Certified Group Psychotherapist, and Originator of Personality Focused Treatment (PFT)(R), and Trauma Resolution Energy Therapy (TRET)(R). Dr. Joines is author of the Joines Personality Adaptation Questionnaire, and Co-Author of TA Today: A New Introduction to Transactional Analysis, and Personality Adaptations: A New Guide to Human Understanding in Psychotherapy and Counseling. Dr. Joines lives and works in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He is married, has five children, and six grandchildren.

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