Elior Elkayam  ·  Daniel Hansen

Remember
who you are.

Beneath your roles, habits and stories lies an ancient map, a grammar of the mind that quietly shapes how you perceive, judge and experience everything. Alchemical Mind teaches you to read it.

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  • Three volumes
  • Sixteen types
  • Richly illustrated
A hardcover copy of Alchemical Mind: The Science and Soul of Personality Typology, by Elior Elkayam and Daniel Hansen, standing at an angle
This book is both mirror and map. From the back cover
The Premise

The quiet call of the authentic self

Caught between the pull of the crowd and the quiet call of who we actually are, most of us lose the thread. Alchemical Mind offers a remedy. It invites you to uncover your mental type, the innate psychological framework that silently decides what you notice, what you weigh, and what you never think to question.

Moving well beyond the standard personality profile, this work reimagines typology by reuniting the structured science of the psyche with the boundless mystery of the soul.

Typology

The sixteen mental types, the grammar behind every act of perception and judgement.

Depth Psychology

C.G. Jung, Myers-Briggs and John Beebe, read at the depth they were written.

Ancient Wisdom

Kabbalah, Taoism and alchemy, restored to their place beside the science of the psyche.

The Work

Three volumes, one descent

A robed scholar unrolling a great parchment map whose continents form the profile of a human head
Nigredo, the descent
Volume I

The Skeleton of the Psyche and the Soul’s Journey

Before exploring how we differ, this foundational volume reveals the universal structures that connect us all. By uniting psychology with the art of alchemy, it demonstrates that the structured psyche and the spontaneous soul are beautifully intertwined. Ultimately, it provides an indispensable map of the psyche, giving you the essential background required to truly grasp mental typology.

  • The Psyche
  • Persona & Shadow
  • The Soulful Life
A brass-and-crystal orrery whose eight rings orbit a small golden sun, each ring bearing an elemental emblem
Albedo, the architecture
Volume II

Dissecting the Mind and Recognising its Types

As the core of the book, this volume dissects the mind into its fundamental components to reveal how they forge distinct mental types. You will progress step-by-step from basic mental functions to complex worldviews, building a highly practical understanding of the theory. Through guided reflective exercises, you will finally decode your own unique type and learn to spot these hidden patterns in others.

  • Attitudes
  • Temperaments
  • Functions
Sixteen robed figures standing in a circle on an inlaid marble floor, each holding a different luminous emblem
Rubedo, the incarnate self
Volume III

The Sixteen Mental Types

In this final volume, the isolated elements of the mind are synthesised into sixteen vibrant, fully realised personality types. These comprehensive portraits move beyond mere theory to demonstrate that a living person is always far greater than the sum of their parts. Brought to life with examples of famous figures and fictional characters from popular TV shows, this guide leaves you fully equipped to recognise these types in the real world.

  • Sixteen Profiles
  • Relationship
  • Practice
Volume III

Sixteen ways of being awake

Every type leads with one function and is quietly governed by the rest. Learn to recognise these structures and the gap between you and the ‘other’ stops looking like a flaw in them.

INTJIntroverted Intuition
INTPIntroverted Thinking
ENTJExtraverted Thinking
ENTPExtraverted Intuition
INFJIntroverted Intuition
INFPIntroverted Feeling
ENFJExtraverted Feeling
ENFPExtraverted Intuition
ISTJIntroverted Sensation
ISFJIntroverted Sensation
ESTJExtraverted Thinking
ESFJExtraverted Feeling
ISTPIntroverted Thinking
ISFPIntroverted Feeling
ESTPExtraverted Sensation
ESFPExtraverted Sensation

Each type is given a full profile in Volume III, with illustrations throughout.

Who it is for

Therapists and seekers alike

For the practitioner

A rigorous typological vocabulary you can actually work with, one that holds up in the consulting room and takes the unconscious seriously. Beebe’s eight-function model is treated with the depth it deserves.

For the seeker

A roadmap for honouring the character you were given rather than the one you were told to perform, and for meeting other minds with something closer to empathy than judgement.

The Authors

Linguists by training

Elior Elkayam and Daniel Hansen came to the psyche the way a linguist comes to a language: looking for its structure. What they found was a grammar, a finite set of attitudes, temperaments and functions that combine, like parts of speech, into the sixteen ways a human being can be arranged.

Alchemical Mind is the result: modern psychology woven together with Kabbalah, Taoism and alchemy, and illustrated throughout to make difficult ideas visible.

  • Elior Elkayam
  • Daniel Hansen
The Great Work

Bridge the gaps between minds

Remember who you are, refine who you have become, and embody who you are here to be. The map is ready.

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Three volumes · Illustrated throughout