Kazimierz Dąbrowski

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Kazimierz Dąbrowski (September 1, 1902, Klarowo - December 26, 1980, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish psychologist, psychiatrist, physician, and poet. Dabrowski developed the theory of Positive Disintegration, a novel approach to personality development, over his lifetime of clinical and academic work.

[edit] Main works

  • Nerwowość dzieci i młodzieży (1935)
  • Społeczno-wychowawcza psychiatria dziecięca (1959)
  • O dezintegracji pozytywnej (1964)
  • Positive disintegration (1964)
  • Personality-shaping through positive disintegration (1967)
  • Mental Growth Through Positive Disintegration (1970)
  • Psychoneurosis Is Not an Illness (1970)
  • Existential thoughts and aphorisms (1972) (Paul Cienin-Pseudonym)
  • Fragments from the diary of a madman (1972) (Pawel Cienin-Pseudonym)
  • Myśli i aforyzmy egzystencjalne (1972) (Paweł Cienin-Pseudonym)
  • The dynamics of concepts (1973)
  • Trud istnienia (1975)
  • Dezintegracja pozytywna (1979)
  • W poszukiwaniu zdrowia psychicznego (1989)

A thorough presentation of his theory at: http://members.shaw.ca/positivedisintegration/

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