Don Richard Riso

Don Richard Riso (* January 17, 1946; † August 30, 2012 in New York) was an American co-founder and expert in the doctrine of the Enneagram. His publications are regarded as standard works, and they have been translated into numerous languages.

Life

Riso grew up in New Orleans and Los Angeles and studied English and philosophy at Stanford University with the degree MA Around 1962 he joined the Catholic Jesuit order of the New Orleans Province. Contrary to some otherwise indicated he was not ordained.

Well by the psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo came Jesuit communities in contact with the early Enneagram material, which was then used in a variety of North American Exerzizenhäusern as a tool for spiritual direction in the early 1970s, word spread and within ihrerselbst, in particular by Robert Ochs, SJ. Anyway, learned Riso as Jesuit seminarian in 1973/74 in Toronto (Canada) know the Jesuit Enneagram material that " ... each side sketchy records of the nine personality types " was by his own account, and sparked his interest.

In 1975, he separated after thirteen years of the Jesuits. He began to draw up the scarce basics to detailed descriptions and expand. Don Richard Riso describes it as his " major breakthrough " when he discovered in 1977 the development stages: For each type there is a " horizontal Categories " nine levels from 1 ( completely healthy or redeemed ) to 9 (very disturbed). He also developed other aspects, such as the harmonious groups, and names names for the types.

His findings after twelve years of work he published in 1987 in his first book, Personality Types: Using the Enneagram for Self - Discovery and three years later published Understanding the Enneagram.

1991, joined him Russ Hudson. This was originally the intention to design a questionnaire on the Enneagram types. It came RHETI, the Riso -Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator, out. Meanwhile, they have a number of different tests and short tests designed and revised again and again. The current full version includes 144 ruling.

Along with Hudson, he founded in 1995, the Enneagram Institute in Stone Ridge, NY, which he directed until his death. The Institute offers courses and workshops as well as various publications. The Enneagram Institute Network is now represented among other U.S. location through offices in fifteen other countries.

Hudson participated in the revision and expansion of the book Personality Types for the second edition; this was released in 1996 Since then, they taught the Enneagram world. ; it also followed another book publications. Riso died on August 30, 2012 to cancer.

Riso classified his enneagram type by its own account as a FOUR TRIPLES with wings.

Bibliography (selection)

  • Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson: Discovering Your Personality Type. 3rd edition, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2003, ISBN 0-618-21903- X books.google.de ( preview).
  • Don Richard Riso: Understanding the Enneagram. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1990
  • Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson: The Wisdom of the Enneagram. New York: Bantam Books, 1999 ISBN 0-553-37820-1. .
  • Don Richard Riso: Personality Types: Using the Enneagram for Self - Discovery in 1987
  • Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson: Enneagram Transformations. Releases and Affirmations for Healing Your Personality Type. Boston:. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1993, ISBN 0-395-65786-5 books.google.de ( preview)
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