Character Structure Assessment

Based on Hands of Light Chapter 13 — identify your primary character structure(s) from Reich's five types, refined by Pierrakos and Brennan.

Instructions

Answer each question honestly — choose the response that feels most true for you, not the one you think is "right." Most people are a combination of structures. This assessment helps identify your primary pattern(s).

Question 1

When threatened or stressed, my first instinct is to:

Question 2

My deepest fear is:

Question 3

My body tends to be:

Question 4

In relationships, I tend to:

Question 5

My energy pattern is:

Question 6

My primary defense mechanism is:

Question 7

What I most need to learn is:

Question 8

My presenting complaint would be:

Question 9

My higher self, when released, would say:

Question 10

My negative intent (the double bind I live in) is:

Character Structure Assessment

Question 1 of 5

When under stress, my first impulse is to:

Reflect

Which character structure is your primary? How does knowing this change your self-understanding and healing journey?