Laurie Helgoe
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Laurie Anne Helgoe | |
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| Born | December 10, 1960 |
| Occupation(s) | Psychologist and author |
Laurie Anne Helgoe (born December 10, 1960) is an American clinical psychologist, educator, and author interested in the relationship between personality development and culture. In 2008, her research revealed a flaw in scholarly and popular accounts regarding people displaying traits of introversion and extraversion.
Biography[edit]
Helgoe was born in 1960 in Billings, Montana. Her father is a Lutheran Minister; her mother was a homemaker. She is the ninth of ten children in her family. She was educated at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, and the University of Nevada, Reno. She is married and has two sons.
Helgoe is an associate professor of Behavioral Sciences at the Ross University School of Medicine. She served as a Clinical Assistant Professor at the West Virginia University School of Medicine and was an assistant professor of Psychology and Social Sciences Division Chair at Davis & Elkins College. Helgoe authors a blog entitled Introvert Power: Food for the Inner Life and hosts the pages Introvert Power and Fragile Bully on Facebook.
In 2019, Helgoe wrote Fragile Bully: Understanding Our Destructive Affair with Narcissism in the Age of Trump, which explores the relationship between narcissism and American political discourse (Diversion Books, 2019). Paul L. Wachtel, Ph.D., distinguished professor at CCNY and integrative psychology theorist, noted that Helgoe's writing provides "seemingly effortless linkage between the intimately psychological and the broader social and cultural" and that "[s]he probes the depth of individual experience, explores the dynamics of couples and families and makes plain how all of this derives both from the powerful impact of our earliest experiences and the equally powerful impact of our current interactions and current social and cultural context. In her hands, there is no contradiction in this complex web of causality, just a rich tapestry of interwoven threads that create a life."[1]
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Helgoe's 2008 book Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life is Your Hidden Strength identifies a flaw in the representation of introverted people. Instead of representing 25-30% of the population, introverts make up 57% of the population. The identified flaw relied upon the dated early work of Isabel Briggs Myers and failed to note results of the latest national surveys using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a questionnaire used by psychologists to classify human personality traits.
[2]Publishers Weekly, an American publication that critiques new literature, awarded Helgoe's Introvert Power a starred review. Foreign publishing rights to her books have been sold in Chinese, Finnish, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. Helgoe has written several articles for national publications. She has been profiled or quoted in more than 100 media outlets including the Guardian, Times of India, Inc.com, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and WashingtonPost.com.
References[edit]
- ^ Wachtel, P. L. (2019). Foreword. In L. Helgoe, Fragile Bully: Understanding Our Destructive Affair with Narcissism in the Age of Trump.
- ^ "Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength by Laurie Helgoe". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
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