Intro to the Reading Room | Intro to "Personality and Wholeness in Therapy"

Reading Room | An Enneagram Podcast · Sep 9, 2026 · 1h 8m

In this episode of Around the Circle, Jeff launches a new season of the Reading Room with a deep dive into Personality and Wholeness in Therapy, Daniel J. Siegel and his collaborators’ ambitious attempt to bring the Enneagram into conversation with neuroscience, developmental theory, and psychotherapy. Drawing on tens of thousands of first-person reports, the book asks what science can—and cannot—tell us about the nine personality patterns.This time, Jeff approaches the book as a philosopher, asking what it actually means to say that the Enneagram is scientifically supported. He examines…