Good summary although not so easy to understand for the Socionics beginner.
Socionics is a theory of personality type and human interaction and is distinguished by its information model of the psyche (called Model A) and a model of interpersonal relations. It incorporates Carl Jung’s work in Psychological Types with Antoni Kępiński’s theory of information metabolism. Socionics is a modification of Jung’s personality type theory that uses eight functions, in contrast to Jung’s model, which used only four. Its theory of intertype relations explains how people balance the (information) needs of the psyche through their relationships with each other.
Among socionists, the prevailing view is that sociotypes are inborn and genetically determined. But, recent research suggests that sociotypes aren’t genetically determined, but rather form as the result of the mother’s biggest concerns during the pregnancy. Also, some socionists believe that sociotypes may temporarily change while in altered states of consciousness or under great stress.
History
Socionics was developed in the 1970s…
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