By Kazimierz Dabrowski

ISBN-10: 069242749X

ISBN-13: 9780692427491

For psychologist and psychiatrist Kazimierz Dabrowski, character isn't really a given – it needs to be consciously created and constructed by way of the person. In his moment English-language ebook, Personality-Shaping via optimistic Disintegration, first released in 1967, Dr. Dabrowski offers a finished therapy of character that continues to be correct, possibly extra so this day than while it was once first written. right here Dabrowski describes personality’s person and common features, the equipment fascinated by shaping it, and case reports 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 via former APA president O. Hobart Mowrer, an appendix detailing a research on proficient young children and notable talents performed by way of Dr. Dabrowski, in addition to formerly unpublished biographical items reading the personalities of Beethoven, Kierkegaard, and Unamuno.

Grounded in Dabrowski’s thought of optimistic disintegration, Personality-Shaping introduces the thoughts on the middle of the speculation and on the center of human power, creativity, social provider, internal clash, psychological ailment, and private progress. Dabrowski’s all-embracing point of view is immediately a clean replacement to the one-dimensional theories and developments pervasive within the box of psychology, and a whole assertion in its personal correct of all these facets of human nature too frequently marginalized, overlooked, or denied – a innovative and heartfelt made from Dr. Dabrowski’s incisive observations and all-embracing vision.

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