The Birth Order Effect: How to Better Understand Yourself and Others
by Clifford E. Isaacson, Kris Radish
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Author: Clifford E. Isaacson, Kris RadishEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-03
ISBN: 1580625517
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
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Book Review: interesting, but not really about birth order
Summary: 1 Stars
Interesting information, and I recognize people I know and have worked with in these "birth order" profiles, but it isn't really about birth order. The author says so himself - that these profiles are based on five "scripts" from Transactional Analysis that he then compared to his five children, and that you don't have to be a first-born (for example) to fit the first-born profile. If so, then why not call them what they are? As "birth order" personalities, they're worthless and misleading, and don't really fit anyway.
I have a master's degree in counseling psych, have studied Alfred Adler (who pioneered the theory of birth order), read a lot on the subject, and have used it a lot in my work and relationships. Isaacson's "new theory of birth order" isn't new, it's not his, and it is not about birth order.
Even as a layman, this has almost no use. Just for fun, my son and I both took Isaacson's quiz to see what birth order we would be identified as, and the scores were unenlightening. Both of us had almost equal numbers for each of the five profiles, meaning we couldn't conclude which was our true "birth order" according to his quiz. We both fit all five, even though my son and I are quite different in some important and obvious ways. I'm a true second-born of four, my son - though also second-born and having a few of the characteristics - is a classic youngest child. By the way, Isaacson claims there is no "youngest" personality.
And as if this weren't enough, there are typos all over the place.
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