Part one: Discovering one's compulsion. Finding oneself in the enneagram -- The avoidance of each personality type -- Description of each personality type -- The enneagramic Jesus -- Part two: Understanding one's compulsion -- The compulsive self looking at the world -- The self vis-a-vis the world -- A false sense of reality -- A false sense of virtue and vice -- The experience of time -- Totems of compulsive types -- The unbalanced self -- The passions -- Moving with the arrows of compulsion -- The personality types according to their preferred center -- Part three: Overcoming one's compulsion. Acting against the compulsion -- Moving against the arrows -- Getting help from a friend -- Conversion -- Intellectual conversion : the holy ideas -- Affective conversion : passion healed by virtue -- Instinctual conversion : using spiritual discernment -- Totems and colors as symbols of the redeemed types.