This book describes Protector Personality, Diagnosis and Treatment and Related Diseases

Protector Personality Type (ISFJ)

For the ISFJ:
"How far you go in life depends on the being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong.
Because someday in the life you will have been all of these."

– George Washington Carver

ISFJs emphasize loyalty, consideration, and the common welfare."

- Isabel Briggs Myers, Gifts Differing

These ISFJs derive a great deal of satisfaction from caring for others, and they offer their comfort gently and helpfully, quietly seeing to it that caretaking is scheduled to protect the health and welfare of those in need."

- David Keirsey, Please Understand Me

Bound by fierce commitment, intense responsibility, and deep loyalty, the ISFJ is the embodiment of putting service above self in most aspects of their lives."

- Otto Kroeger, Type Talk at Work

A Protector (Defender) is a person with the Introverted, Sensing, Feeling, and Judging (ISFJ) personality traits.

ISFJ stands for Introverted, Sensing, Feeling, Judging.

ISFJ indicates a person who is energized by time expended alone (Introverted), who can focus on facts and details rather than ideas and concepts (Sensing), who decides based on feelings and values (Feeling) and who prefers to plan and organize rather than spontaneous and flexible (Judging).

ISFJs are occasionally called Protector Personalities because of their interest in keeping people safe and well cared for.

Assertive and Turbulent Protectors Subtypes (ISFJ-A and ISFJ-T)

ISFJ-A is an Assertive Protector personality (aggressive) subtype.

ISFJ-T is a Turbulent Protector personality (emotional) subtype.

The traits that affect both Assertive (ISFJ-A) and Turbulent (ISFJ-T) Protectors encourage the caring for and generously supporting the people in their lives typically in a humble way.

ISFJ's are kind, affectionate, and reserved.

These people are likely to be warm, kind, affectionate, and unassuming in their own steady way.

While they are often quiet and introverted, they are very observant, good listeners, and find joy in seeing others attain their goals.

As a result, they are very familiar with the feelings of other people.

They are capable and responsible, giving watchful attention to practical details in their daily lives.

Protectors tend to be sensitively perceptive persons with an eye for details.

Their caring nature encourages them to help when they see a need, and to do so in a down-to-earth manner.

This consciousness is likely stronger among Turbulent Protectors than in Assertive Protectors.

Both forms of Protectors have a liking for meticulousness.

Due to their ever-watchful and often worried eyes, Turbulent Protectors normally remain the more detail-oriented of the two.

The Protector Personality type is quite distinctive, as many of their qualities resist the definition of their individual traits.

1. While sensitive, Protectors have good analytical abilities.
2. While reserved, they have perceptive people skills and good social relations.
3. While they are normally conservative, Protectors are accessible to change and new ideas.

People with the Protector Personality type are more than the sum of their traits, and it is the way they use these strengths that makes them who they are.

They are very detail learning, constan, and organized which indicates they also work well in structures that require good administrative or management work like a teacher, banker...