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Нere you will find information about 16 personality types and the method of associative psycho-diagnostics (APD) – a comprehensive approach to understanding personality types based on musical and artistic preferences. The founder of the theory and method of Associative socionics is a psychologist Olga Tangemann.
Olga Tangemann studied at the Faculty of Foreign Languages at the Khabarovsk Pedagogical Institute, Russia, and the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the Pedagogical University of Saint Petersburg. She holds a Master’s degree in Forensic Psychology from the University of Leicester, UK, and worked as an Assistant Therapist at the Royal Free Neurological Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) at Edgware Community Hospital in London. She is the author of several articles on socionics and head of the school of associative socionics.

What is socionics?

Socionics is the personality typology and the theory of 16 types invented by based on 16 different ways of information processing. It is distinguished by its information model of the psyche (called “Model A”) and a model of interpersonal relations. It incorporates Carl Jung‘s work on Psychological Types with Antoni Kępiński‘s theory of information metabolism. Socionics is a modification of Jung’s personality type theory that uses eight psychic functions, in contrast to Jung’s model, which used only four. These functions process information at varying levels of competency and interact with the corresponding function in other individuals, giving rise to predictable reactions and impressions—a theory of intertype relations. In contrast to the generally accepted views in science on age-related variability of the human psyche, socionics postulates the presence of 16 psychological types unchanged throughout life.

Who is the author of socionics theory?
Aušra Augustinavičiūtė (April 4, 1927 – August 19, 2005) was a Lithuanian economist, and dean of the Vilnius Pedagogical University’s department of family science. Founder of socionics, the theory of information processing and personality types. Augustinavičiūtė was born not far from the city of Kaunas, in Lithuania. In 1956 she graduated from the economic faculty of Vilnius University as a financier. She worked at the Ministry of Finance of Lithuania and later as a teacher of political economics and sociology in different educational institutions in Vilnius. Her works on socionics, with the exception of few, were not published during the period of Soviet power, but became more and more popular during the 1990s.
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