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.
We can assess a person's level of development based on the presence of specific dynamisms in their inner milieu.
Theory of #PositiveDisintegration posits 5 levels of development, defined and recognized by the specific dynamisms (of lack of them) operating on each level.
Theory of #PositiveDisintegration posits 5 levels of development, defined and recognized by the specific dynamisms (of lack of them) operating on each level.
*(or lack of them)
#TPD is the only theory of human development that coherently and comprehensively describes *transformational* personality growth, including many of its so-called pathological, negative aspects as its necessary components.
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