Know Yourself: Part 1, Exploring Your Personality

Based on the research and clinical work of Dr. C. Robert Cloninger, professor of psychiatry, psychology, and genetics, and director of the Center for Well-Being at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, this is the first in a projected series of 15 programs designed to help people systematically increase their self-understanding, manage stress, and live happier, healthier lives. Narrated (with optional music) against a series of relaxing and peaceful images of nature, Exploring Your Personality invites viewers to explore what creates personal happiness and learn how to implement necessary changes into daily life. Making progress toward the goal requires first simply observing oneself—completing a temperament and character inventory, or TCI (available online)—with the assumption being that understanding how individual traits both help and hinder the process of finding contentment prepares one to take better charge of one's own well-being. Overall, Exploring Your Personality is a clearly presented, accessible self-help program that offers worthwhile insights into mind-body health. Other newly available titles in the series include Understanding Thought, Quieting the Mind, Opening to the World, and Using Intuition. Recommended. Aud: P. (J. Reed)