Personality-Shaping Through Positive Disintegration by Kazimierz Dabrowski

By Kazimierz Dabrowski

For psychologist and psychiatrist Kazimierz Dabrowski, character isn't a given – it needs to be consciously created and constructed by way of the person. In his moment English-language ebook, Personality-Shaping via confident Disintegration, first released in 1967, Dr. Dabrowski provides a complete therapy of character that remains correct, possibly extra so this present day than while it used to be first written. the following Dabrowski describes personality’s person and common features, the equipment focused on shaping it, and case stories of well-known personalities (including Augustine and Michelangelo) demonstrating the empirical and normative nature of character improvement.

Included during this version are the unique advent, written by means of former APA president O. Hobart Mowrer, an appendix detailing a research on talented youngsters and awesome skills performed through Dr. Dabrowski, in addition to formerly unpublished biographical items studying the personalities of Beethoven, Kierkegaard, and Unamuno.

Grounded in Dabrowski’s concept of confident disintegration, Personality-Shaping introduces the suggestions on the center of the idea and on the middle of human strength, creativity, social provider, internal clash, psychological ailment, and private progress. Dabrowski’s all-embracing viewpoint is immediately a clean replacement to the one-dimensional theories and traits pervasive within the box of psychology, and an entire assertion in its personal correct of all these features of human nature too usually marginalized, overlooked, or denied – a innovative and heartfelt fabricated from Dr. Dabrowski’s incisive observations and all-embracing vision.

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