Positive Disintegration
Positive Disintegration Kazimierz Dabrowski refers to his view of personality development as the theory of positive disintegration. Anxiety, psychoneurosis, and psychosis are symptoms of…
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Positive Disintegration
Kazimierz Dabrowski refers to his view of personality development as the theory of positive disintegration. Anxiety, psychoneurosis, and psychosis are symptoms of disintegration. He defines disintegration as disharmony within the individual and in his adaptation to the external environment.
Integration is the opposite: evolution, psychic health, and adequate adaptation, both within the self and to the environment. In general, disintegration refers to involution, psychopathology, and retrogression to a lower level of psychic functioning. 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