This is a handbook on the anatomy of personality that therapists and non-therapists alike will find to be an invaluable aid to effective communication and positive change. Because it is grounded in process, clinicians can use Dr. Kahler's Process Therapy Model in conjunction with the therapeutic or counseling approach they otherwise prefer. The model provides a means of rapidly and accurately assessing personality structure through language and behavioral cues. Dr. Kahler's six Personality Types and the role that each plays in everyone's personality structure are described in detail. The identification of the unique way that each Type perceives the world, combined with knowledge of the Channel, or style of communication, that each prefers, provides a formula for immediately connecting and establishing rapport. Dr. Kahler's award-winning discoveries of Drivers and Miniscripts provide a second-by-second means of knowing if a person is "open" to how we are speaking, as well as the level of distress the person is experiencing and how the person is likely to sabotage his or her success. Dr. Kahler identifies the three sequential degrees of distress behavior that are unique to each Personality type, when that behavior is likely to indicate a Ware Adaptation, and intervention strategies to address that behavior. Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of the model is the concept of "Phasing" and the Developmental Stages and related Issues that precipitate it. Phase changes are times in which we experience prolonged, intense distress, work through that distress and emerge with a new motivational outlook. The model describes how each Type experiences a Phase change, identifies how best to resolve the struggle and predicts how our motivations will change afterward. I have known a number of "professional giants" in the fields of behavioral science and medicine, including Nobel Prize winners. But I am most grateful for what I have learned from my continued contact with Taibi Kahler. His Process Therapy Model revolutionizes how we understand, diagnose, and treat people in psychotherapy. His model is extremely valuable for predicting behavior. --Terrence McGuire, M.D., Lead Psychiatrist for Manned Spaceflight, NASA, 1959-1996 I have known a number of "professional giants" in the fields of behavioral science and medicine, including Nobel Prize winners. But I am most grateful for what I have learned from my continued contact with Taibi Kahler. His Process Therapy Model revolutionizes how we understand, diagnose, and treat people in psychotherapy. His model is extremely valuable for predicting behavior. --Terrence McGuire, M.D., Lead Psychiatrist for Manned Spaceflight, NASA, 1959-1996 This is the definitive work for understanding and working with the six PTM Personality Types and integrating my Personality Adaptations. Taibi is a theorist's theorist. Every therapist needs to know and use his Process Therapy Model. --Paul Ware, M.D., Chairman of the School of Psychiatry at LSU Health Services Center, and originator of Personality Adaptations We acknowledge that what we call the Process Model in our book and teachings ... is your Process [Therapy] Model. ... We have always seen ourselves ... simply as "messengers" carrying your message to the psychotherapy and counseling trainess to whom we present. --Ian Stewart, Ph.D. and Vann Joines, Ph.D., authors of Personality Adaptations We acknowledge that what we call the Process Model in our book and teachings ... is your Process [Therapy] Model. ... We have always seen ourselves ... simply as "messengers" carrying your message to the psychotherapy and counseling trainess to whom we present. --Ian Stewart, Ph.D. and Vann Joines, Ph.D., authors of Personality Adaptations I have known a number of "professional giants" in the fields of behavioral science and medicine, including Nobel Prize winners. But I am most grateful for what I have learned from my continued contact with Taibi Kahler. His Process Therapy Model revolutionizes how we understand, diagnose, and treat people in psychotherapy. His model is extremely valuable for predicting behavior. --Terrence McGuire, M.D., Lead Psychiatrist for Manned Spaceflight, NASA, 1959-1996 We acknowledge that what we call the Process Model in our book and teachings ... is your Process [Therapy] Model. ... We have always seen ourselves ... simply as "messengers" carrying your message to the psychotherapy and counseling trainess to whom we present. --Ian Stewart, Ph.D. and Vann Joines, Ph.D., authors of Personality Adaptations Taibi Kahler holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Child Development and Family Life, and a B.A. in English Literature, all from Purdue University. He is a Clinical Psychologist, and has held licensures as a Marriage, Family and Child Counselor and as a Licensed Counselor. He is the originator of the Process Therapy Model and the Process Communication Model. More than 700,00 people worldwide have been profiled using the Pesonality Pa