Because two categories (or even several) are often inadequate to fully capture differences in personality, which of the following tends to be more informative than classifying persons into two or three types?
a. rating people on a list of traits
b. determining their archetype
c. determining the distance between their real and ideal selves.
d. analyzing fixations through psychoanalytic techniques
A
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