Kazimierz Dąbrowski

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.

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/



Kazimierz Dąbrowski