Brian Deacon’s psyche follows an introverted flow. He knows himself and attempts to develop his inner resources to their maximum potential.

Brian Deacon is motivated by a need to work in common with other people and to share life’s pleasures and pain. His commitments to other people are of paramount importance to his personal development. This dependence may present difficulties with individual self-assertion and make it hard for him to make decisions alone. If he wants to achieve inner equilibrium, he must behave in such a way that his actions yield benefits to others as well as himself.

Brian Deacon thinks, intuit, and perceives things primarily from within. He is open and curious, optimistic and enthusiastic, and eager to participate in everything happening around him. His affections are lively and spontaneous, but may be more intellectual than sensual. In a partner, Brian would seek a source of mutual spiritual or artistic inspiration. Light-hearted and perhaps even fickle, Brian never allows himself to be overcome by outer realities or emotions. In its most exaggerated form, Brian’s buoyancy borders on indifference.

Brian Deacon is working hard to understand the feelings of others, but finds it difficult to understand his own. He sees the emotional world as a foreign territory and is baffled by his own emotions. If he were able to accept and understand his own emotions, he would have an easier time grappling with the feelings of others. He has a strong desire for emotional independence and might struggle to see the emotional needs of others. He might even be the first to deny that such needs are real. As a result, his dependency on others is unconscious. Because it is seen as a threat, it is repressed.