JM: I s there a certain personality type who fits the general developmental track that progresses from level III to V? Or are they quite varied? Their lives stand out by their self-awareness, sense of responsibility, and being active and deliberate in their outward life or their inner life, or both. The people who exemplify a high level of development are fascinating and inspiring. When we can see those terms in how people live their lives the theory begins to gain some flesh on its bones. Michael Piechowski: A theory with all its new terms is just a skeleton. Dabrowski study exemplars? Was it simply an effort to prove the theory? In our next issue, we’ll look more at this path as compared to other developmental trajectories (including the one known in TPD as unilevel disintegration) and about what research into positive disintegration might look like in the future. In this first of a two-part series, we talk about the value of studying those who seem to have gone through the process of positive disintegration and achieved the highest level defined by Dabrowski. Piechowski, who kindly agreed to an e-mail conversation about his work. It’s therefore my pleasure to present to Third Factor’s readers my exchange with Dr. In the stories of these remarkable individuals’ lives, we see the process of positive disintegration play out, bringing the language of the theory to life. Piechowski’s profiles detail the processes of disintegration and growth toward secondary integration and inner peace in exemplars like like humanitarian leader Eleanor Roosevelt, activist Peace Pilgrim, writer and Holocaust victim Etty Hillesum, and UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. Michael Piechowski, a psychologist and biologist who worked with Dabrowski. And when it comes to positive disintegration, there may be no better example of this than the profiles written by Dr. To really see the power of these concepts, however, there’s nothing better than a story- show, don’t tell, as creative writing instructors say. It’s full of terms that only make sense after you’ve done the academic work needed to understand what Dabrowski meant by them-things like “multilevel disintegration,” “inner psychic milieu,” and “subject-object in oneself.”Ī dedicated student can grasp the meaning of these terms after reading descriptive academic texts. Kazimierz Dabrowski’s theory of positive disintegration can be challenging to understand.
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