The Theory of Positive Disintegration is a novel approach to personality development.

The theory of positive disintegration has an extremely broad scope and has implications for many areas.

Positive disintegration is a vital developmental process.

Dąbrowski's basic message is that the gifted will disproportionately display this process of positive disintegration and personality growth.

Dąbrowski illustrated his theory through autobiographies of and biographies about those who have experienced positive disintegration.

Positive Disintegration.

Dąbrowski developed the theory of Positive Disintegration, which describes how a person's development grows as a result of accumulated experiences.

Personality-shaping through positive disintegration (1967)

Mental Growth Through Positive Disintegration.

Personality Shaping Though Positive Disintegration.

These "disintegrative" processes are therefore seen as "positive," whereas people who fail to go through positive disintegration may remain for their entire lives in a state of "primary integration."

Kazimierz Dąbrowski (1902-1980), a Polish psychiatrist and psychologist, developed the Theory of Positive Disintegration over his lifetime of clinical and academic work.

The Theory of Positive Disintegration (TPD) by Kazimierz Dąbrowski describes a theory of personality development.

Readers interested in HSP may want to compare and contrast Aron's approach with Dabrowski's concept of over-excitability in his theory of Positive Disintegration.

Overexcitability is a component of developmental potential, a part of Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration (TPD), a theory of personality development.

These conditions may appear to be very similar to symptoms of hyperactivity, bipolar disorder, ADHD, autism-spectrum conditions, and other psychological disorders, but are often explained by gifted education professionals by reference to Kazimierz Dabrowski's theory of Positive Disintegration.