In addition, I was also in psychotherapy with him. Dabrowski’s student at Laval University in Quebec, Canada in the late 1960’s. How did you become familiar with Dabrowski’s approach? Was he aware of Jung’s work? Kazimierz Dabrowski, a contemporary of Jung’s. This article introduces a conceptual model of this process as the sequence of transitions from a point attractor (the primary integration) through a periodic attractor (the unilevel disintegration), to a chaotic attractor (the spontaneous multilevel disintegration), and continuous through the process of self-organization to an emerging order (the organized multilevel disintegration) and finally to an order with increasing complexity (the secondary integration).CJSSF: Your upcoming program “Inner Conflict: The Pathway of Positive Disintegration” is based on the work of Dr. According to Dabrowski, positive disintegration is the mental development described by the process of transition from lower to higher levels of mental life and is stimulated by tension, inner conflict, struggle, anxiety, and despair. This articles shows how the concepts of chaos theory and self-organization such as the sensitivity to initial conditions, positive and negative feedback, bifurcation points, and attractors provide new insights into understanding the personality development of gifted adolescents. The presence of these strong emotions often contributes to lesser tension in young people’s development, including a greater ability to integrate their experiences, to take their psychological development into their own hands, and to find direction for their future.ĭabrowski's theory of positive disintegration describes patterns and explains mechanisms of human development and has been successfully applied to understanding of gifted individuals. These emotions are the driving forces that generate order and complexity not only in the creative process, but also in overall psychological development. It was discovered that the process of creativity in young people is intertwined with the strong emotions of passion, curiosity, enthusiasm, and delight. To interpret the data, we created pattern models of creativity by applying the concepts of complexity science, especially self-organization, with the Theory of Positive Disintegration and the Psycho-Evolutionary Theory of Emotions. For this qualitative research, a methodology combining hermeneutic phenomenology/ontology with narrative/biography was chosen. The purpose of this study was to investigate creativity in adolescents and young adults and its role in psychological development. This idea corresponds to Prigogine’s concept that “non-equilibrium is a source of order.” Through the perspective of complexity science, I tried to uncover some deep secrets of Dąbrowski’s theory and bring further understanding of human development. For Dąbrowski, nervousness and psychoneurotic symptoms are signs of the beginning of an advancing process of positive transformations. “ Dąbrowski stresses the importance of “emotional turbulence” in the process of transition from the lower level to the higher levels of mental life, which complies with the core ideas of chaos theory where sensitivity, instability and unpredictability are an inherent part of development. In one of the articles, I wrote: “As I read Dąbrowski’s book, Mental Growth through Positive Disintegration, I experienced a profound sense of “resonance.” Moreover, as I immersed myself in the works of Dabrowski, I was mesmerized by the beautiful parallels between the theory of positive disintegration and chaos theory. I was exploring Dąbrowski’s ideas through the prism of my knowledge as a physicist, specializing in complexity science. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of my work on Dąbrowski’s theory, I have created this small book, which contains nine of my articles published in different psychological journals.
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