Positive Disintegration by Dabrowski, Kazimierz
Positive Disintegration by Dabrowski, Kazimierz

Positive Disintegration

Kazimierz Dabrowski refers to his view of personality development as the theory of positive disintegration. He defines...
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Author: Kazimierz Dabrowski
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Language: English
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Positive Disintegration by Dabrowski, Kazimierz

Positive Disintegration

$103.40
Positive Disintegration by Dabrowski, Kazimierz

Positive Disintegration

$103.40
Author: Kazimierz Dabrowski
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

Kazimierz Dabrowski refers to his view of personality development as the theory of positive disintegration. He defines disintegration as disharmony within the individual and in his adaptation to the external environment. Anxiety, psychoneurosis, and psychosis are symptoms of disintegration. In general, disintegration refers to involution, psychopathology, and retrogression to a lower level of psychic functioning. Integration is the opposite: evolution, psychic health, and adequate adaptation, both within the self and to the environment. Dabrowski postulates a developmental instinct--that is, a tendency of man to evolve from lower to higher levels of personality. He regards personality as primarily developing through dissatisfaction with, and fragmentation of, the existing psychic structure--a period of disintegration--and finally a secondary integration at a higher level. Dabrowski feels that no growth takes place without previous disintegration. He regards symptoms of anxiety, psychoneurosis, and even some symptoms of psychosis as the signs of the disintegration stage of this evolution, and therefore not always pathological.



Author: Kazimierz Dabrowski
Publisher: Maurice Bassett
Published: 08/08/2017
Pages: 130
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d
ISBN: 9781600250958

About the Author
Dabrowski, Kazimierz: - "Kazimierz Dabrowski, M.D., Ph.D., (1902 - 1980) was born in Poland. He received his medical degree from the Forensic Medicine Department of the University of Geneva in 1929, and earned his Ph.D. in psychology, as well as a second medical diploma, from the Adam Mickiewicz University in 1931. Dabrowski was a very prolific scholar; his publications number in the hundreds in Polish, including some twenty major books. Dabrowski's titles in English include: Personality-shaping Through Positive Disintegration, Mental Growth Through Positive Disintegration, and Psychoneurosis Is Not an Illness."
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