The Seba library treats Typological Imbalance in 8 passages, across 6 authors (including Samuels, Andrew, Stein, Murray, McGilchrist, Iain).
Neurosis can then be seen as unbalanced or one-sided development arising out of the dominance of one of the two sides of the pair.
Samuels identifies typological imbalance as the structural core of neurosis within Jung’s model, where pathology is the clinical expression of sustained one-sided dominance.
, Jung and the Post-Jungians, 1985thesis
Children who are typologically different from their parents are often misunderstood and may be coerced into adopting a false typology that conforms to parental preferences.
Stein demonstrates that typological imbalance is not only an intrapsychic phenomenon but a relational and developmental injury inflicted when the dominant typology of a family system overrides a child’s authentic orientation.
, Jung’s Map of the Soul: An Introduction, 1998thesis
if that product, as I suggest, requires balancing the contributions of the two hemispheres, an imbalance of some kind between the two will be a common element in mind/brain abnormalities.
McGilchrist proposes hemispheric imbalance as a neurological analogue to typological imbalance, situating disequilibrium between attentional modes as a common substrate for psychopathology.
, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World, 2021thesis
if that product, as I suggest, requires balancing the contributions of the two hemispheres, an imbalance of some kind between the two will be a common element in mind/brain abnormalities.
A parallel formulation of the same hemispheric-imbalance thesis, reinforcing the neurobiological grounding of typological disequilibrium.
, The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World, 2021supporting
we may resist our less-developed functions, in part, because they require us to process information in an unaccustomed left- or right-brain way.
Thomson grounds the psychological resistance to undeveloped functions in hemisphere-specific processing, offering a neurological explanation for the persistence of typological imbalance.
, Personality Type: An Owner’s Manual, 1998supporting
The fourth function is usually far less differentiated than the other three. Jung calls this the ‘inferior function,’ and it is found in association with the unconscious contrasexual ‘authorities’.
Beebe maps the architecture of typological imbalance onto archetypal positions, showing how the least differentiated function carries the greatest unconscious charge and relational projection.
, Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness, 2017supporting
This family’s experience is a good example of how burdens produce imbalance and affect a family’s development negatively.
Schwartz translates typological imbalance into IFS systems language, arguing that legacy burdens generate structural imbalance that derails both individual and collective development.
, Internal Family Systems Therapy, 1995supporting
IFS family therapy balance and imbalance and, 219–223
An index entry confirming that balance and imbalance constitute a dedicated analytical category within the IFS family therapy framework.
, Internal Family Systems Therapy, 1995aside