Chapter 1 | "Personality and Wholeness in Therapy" | Can Neuroscience Explain the Enneagram?

Reading Room | An Enneagram Podcast · Sep 9, 2026 · 44m

In this episode of Around the Circle, Jeff continues the Reading Room with a deep dive into Chapter One of Daniel J. Siegel’s Personality and Wholeness in Therapy. Siegel is attempting something ambitious: translating the Enneagram into a scientifically grounded, clinically useful framework that connects our inner motivations, personality, and patterns of behavior.This time, Jeff explores Siegel’s three fundamental ideas, including the relationship between temperament and experience, the three emotional systems of anger, separation distress, and fear, and our underlying drive toward agency…