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"An individual who's developing must feel badly in different periods of time, must be tormented by sadness, depression, anxiety, inner and external conflicts. Without these experiences there's no development, there's no growth of self-awareness."(K. Dabrowski).
#WorldMentalHealth
This humane and more authentic view of mental health -- not as an absence of symptoms but the capacity for development that includes so-called negative and "pathological" experiences -- was articulated by Kazimierz Dabrowski in his theory of #PositiveDisintegration.
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The conflicts that arise from positive maladjustment* to the status quo in our external and internal world, and their attendant anxiety and other unpleasant mental states, become vehicles of growth, propelling us toward personality development.
*Positive maladjustment is a developmental dynamism (one of several) that arises at the level of spontaneous positive disintegration and usually is a mark of its beginning.
Dynamisms are inner forces of growth and transformation of individuality into personality, characteristic of the process of positive disintegration.
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Caretakers of young psychopaths experience pervasive depression. It's a micro-model of what's happening in the US under Trump, also seen elsewhere around the world. But it can be overcome: 1/13
salon.com/2019/09/15/the…
Trump generates so much chaos it's exhausting, impossible to follow much less understand. A clarifying lens is needed, and physician/scholar Fred Burkle gave me one, as he'd done before describing Trump as a schoolyard bully: 2/13
salon.com/2019/07/22/und…
The new lens Burkle provided, to understand Trump's psychological impact, was the effect young psycopaths have on their caretake families: 3/13
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