<P> After the English translation of Jung's book Psychological Types was published in 1923 (first published in German in 1921), she recognized that Jung's theory was similar to, but went far beyond, her own . Briggs's four types were later identified as corresponding to the IXXXs, EXXPs, EXTJs and EXFJs . Her first publications were two articles describing Jung's theory, in the journal New Republic in 1926 ("Meet Yourself Using the Personality Paint Box") and 1928 ("Up From Barbarism"). After extensively studying the work of Jung, they turned their interest in human behavior into efforts to turn the theory of psychological types to practical use . </P> <P> Briggs's daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers, added to her mother's typological research, which she would progressively take over entirely . Myers graduated first in her class from Swarthmore College in 1919 and wrote a mystery novel, Murder Yet to Come, in 1929 using typological ideas (which won the National Detective Murder Mystery Contest that year). However, neither Myers nor Briggs was formally educated in the discipline of psychology, and both were self - taught in the field of psychometric testing . Myers therefore apprenticed herself to Edward N. Hay, who was then personnel manager for a large Philadelphia bank and who went on to start one of the first successful personnel consulting firms in the United States . From Hay, Myers learned rudimentary test construction, scoring, validation, and statistical methods . </P> <P> Briggs and Myers began creating the indicator during World War II in the belief that a knowledge of personality preferences would help women who were entering the industrial workforce for the first time to identify the sort of war - time jobs that would be "most comfortable and effective" for them . The Briggs Myers Type Indicator Handbook was published in 1944 . The indicator changed its name to "Myers--Briggs Type Indicator" in 1956 . Myers' work attracted the attention of Henry Chauncey, head of the Educational Testing Service . Under these auspices, the first MBTI Manual was published in 1962 . The MBTI received further support from Donald W. MacKinnon, head of the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley; W. Harold Grant, a professor at Michigan State University and Auburn University; and Mary H. McCaulley of the University of Florida . The publication of the MBTI was transferred to Consulting Psychologists Press in 1975, and the Center for Applications of Psychological Type was founded as a research laboratory . </P> <P> After Myers' death in May 1980, Mary McCaulley updated the MBTI Manual and the second edition was published in 1985 . The third edition appeared in 1998 . </P>

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