Research on Positive Disintegration Theory by Kazimierz Dabrowski

by Kazimierz Dąbrowski

During the last year, I have compiled different information of this Theory.

The infos I got is on:

- Level III
- Level IV
- Level V

We will go one by one:

Level III
Level III: Love
Level III: Pain, Inner conflict
Level III: Perfectionism
Level III: Third factor
Level III: Empathy

Level IV
Level IV: Level IV Exemplars
Level IV: Self-education
Level IV: Trascending self
Level IV: Compassion
Level IV: Contentment, tranquility
Level IV: Autopsychotherapy
Level iV: Creativity
Level IV: Detachment
Level IV: Ascetism practices
Level IV: All embracing responsibility

High IV level - Low V level :
Level IV-V: Obtaining the Holy Spirit within
Level IV-V: Joy, bliss
Level IV-V: Absence of fatigue while working
Level IV-V: Afflictions, anxieties
Level IV-V: Attainable
Level IV-V: Absence of fear
Level IV-V: The illuminative way
Level IV-V: Love
Level IV-V: Self-perfection
Level IV-V: Service
Level IV-V: External conflict
Level IV-V: Ex-ante: Dark Night of the Senses
Level IV-V: Glamourous self-image

High Level V: Ghandi, Theresa de Calcuta, Jesucristo, and so on. I´m not so good as to aspire to get that level. I´d like to live happy, and aside from violence and conflict.

About the author

Kazimierz Dabrowski (September 1, 1902–November 26, 1980) was a psychologist, psychiatrist, educator, and prolific writer, publishing over 30 books and 250 papers in various languages during his lifetime. He received degrees in medicine (University of Geneva, 1929) and psychology (Poznan, 1931), certificates in psychoanalysis (under Wilhelm Stekel in Vienna, 1934) and public health (Harvard University, 1934), and habilitations in children’s psychotherapy (University of Geneva, 1934) and psychiatry (University of Wrocław, 1948), among other honours and achievements. In addition to Stekel, Dabrowski studied under some of the most prominent figures in his field, both in Poland and abroad, including Jean Piaget, Pierre Janet, Édouard Claparède, and Stefan Blachowski. In 1935 he founded the Institute of Mental Hygiene in Warsaw, Poland, which he directed until 1948. Under Nazi occupation, he and his colleagues used the facility to hide Polish resistance soldiers, refugees, doctors and priests involved in the underground movement. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1942. In 1950, the communist authorities arrested him and his wife, and he was incarcerated for 18 months. After his release, strict restraints were placed on his activities until he was declared ‘rehabilitated’ in 1956. Throughout his career he taught and lectured at many universities around the world, including a professorship in experimental psychology at Warsaw in 1956 and, from 1964 on, the position of Professor and Director of Clinical Research and Internship at the University of Alberta. He also served as Visiting Professor at Laval University in Quebec from 1968. He passed away in Warsaw in 1980 after suffering a heart attack in 1979.