The Pattern System: A Periodic Table for Psychology Paperback – October 4, 2013

The Pattern System is an elegant and comprehensive road map to help you understand, work with, and heal aspects of your personality. What I love about it is that it gives a practical, easy to understand structure to the complex workings of the human psyche.One thing that makes the Pattern System so valuable is that it looks at many different dimensions of personality, not just one or a handful. It helps you identify patterns of behavior that work well for you and ones where you have difficulties. It goes into detail about the underlying dynamics that can create patterns and how they can manifest in your life.Another part of the Pattern System that I especially appreciate is the focus on capacities, which are healthy ways of being. Developing capacities is integrated into the process of healing dysfunctional patterns. The Pattern System can be used in conjunction with IFS (Internal Family Systems) or can be used by itself. I know that I will keep exploring myself using the Pattern System for years to come.

I have a passion for all fields of Psychology and like to read everything on the subject I can get my hands on in my continual quest for more insight and understanding into the human condition and what makes us behave the way we do, as well as how we can live our best lives. The Pattern System presents every possible kind of human behaviour, and their degrees of intensity, in the form of a reference table. This means you can scan through all these ranges and degrees of human character traits with ease. Most fascinating and clarifying. I plan to order a hard copy as I know it will be an invaluable aid for reflection in my new counselling practice. It also made me want to read more by this author.

This book is full of valuable information in a well organized form. It integrates with most of interpersonal psychology, and especially Internal Family Systems. I enjoyed reading it -- and I am already using it as a constant reference source. An amazing accomplishment. After reading it, I ordered a second copy to loan out to friends, because I don't want to lose my copy but I want to share it with others. I also ordered several of the sub-books that develop further some of the topics in this book. Highly recommended.

Jay Earley has a rare ability to capture insights into how people work and put them into very understandable words. When people read this book, they will get indications of where they are in their own emotional and psychological life. I highly recommend this book to people who desire to learn know more about themselves.

Especially helpful as a non pathological approach for understanding how my behavior may activate other people’s wounds and patterns. This understanding helps me to manage the activation of my own patterns and respond from self.

Jay Earley has contributed a great deal to the understanding of human behavior. I would recommend this book for anyone interested in psychology.

I found this book to be confusing to understand and almost impossibe to work with. Having a Master's in English, I don't feel it was a comprehension issue on my part, but rather that the author was simply "all over the place" in his thought process. My advice is to try a sample of this book before committing time or money to it. I really did devote time and effort to this, even going back to it several times.

A- mazing. Yes, just do it. So fascinating. You will think about everyone you know and be analyzing them.

A fantastic book which when used alongside IFS is a great guide in helping us to understand ourselves and our clients.

Muy útil para planificar el trabajo con polaridades, lo recomiendo a todos los terapeutas IFS. Gracias!!!

A fascinating exploration of personality. It helps to be familiar with Internal Family Systems therapy (see (...)) and I am. Highly recommended.