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Contemporary voices on Dabrowski's theory of positive disintegration.

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R. Frank Falk, PhD, is Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of Akron, and Director of Research at the Institute for the Study of Advanced Development. His research focuses on social-emotional development and research methods/statistics. His most recent publications involve the measurement of overexcitabilities in Dabrowski's theory. E-mail: rfalk@uakron.edu

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Bill Tillier received a Bachelor's of Science from the University of Calgary and later a Master's of Science from the University of Alberta. In Edmonton he became Dr. Dabrowski's student and became deeply involved in his work. Tillier had a career as a forensic psychologist before retiring due to illness. He now volunteers for Muscular Dystrophy Canada and the Canadian Paraplegic Association. Dabrowski asked Tillier to keep his theory alive and he received his unpublished papers. He maintains a Dabrowski Web page (http://www.positivedisintegration. com), promotes and distributes his original works, and helps with Dabrowski conferences. E-mail: bill@ positivedisintegration.com

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Susan Daniels, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and Counseling as well as the Coordinator of Gifted Programs at California State University, San Bernardino. Recently, Susan served as contributing coeditor, with Michael Piechowski, of Living With Intensity: Understanding the Sensitivity, Excitability and Emotional Development of Gifted Children, Adolescents and Adults, published this past fall with Great Potential Press. E-mail: sdaniels@ csusb.edu

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Nancy B. Miller, PhD, is a social psychologist at the Gifted Development Center, University of Akron, and editor for Advanced Development journal. Her research interests are in personality development, gender and giftedness, and women's social support and adjustment to stressful life events. E-mail: nmiller@uakron.edu

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Michael M. Piechowski, PhD, the author of "Mellow Out," They Say. If I Only Could: Intensities and Sensitivities of the Young and Bright, collaborated with Kazimierz Dabrowski while at the University of Alberta. A Senior Fellow of the Institute for Educational Advancement and the Yunasa summer camp for highly gifted youth, he coedited Living With Intensity with Susan Daniels. E-mail: spirgif@ earthlink.net

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Linda Kreger Silverman, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who has contributed over 300 publications to the field, including the textbook Counseling the Gifted & Talented and Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner. She founded and directs the Institute for the Study of Advanced Development (ISAD), which publishes Advanced Development Journal on adult giftedness, and ISAD's subsidiary, the Gifted Development Center (http://www.gifteddevelopment.com), which has assessed over 5,600 children in the last 30 years. E-mail: gifted@gifteddevelopment.com

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P. Susan Jackson in the Founder and Therapeutic Director of the Daimon Institute for the Highly Gifted in White Rock, British Columbia, Canada. She is also the District Coordinator of Programs to Support Gifted and Talented Students in Langley, BC, Canada. She is a contributor to the International Handbook on Giftedness and the Living With Intensity book on Dabrowski with extensive educational and mental health response background in all areas of gifted education. Her research interests and clinical experience focus on the well-being and development of highly and profoundly gifted learners. E-mail: sue.jackson@shaw.ca

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Elizabeth Mika, MA, LCPC, of Gifted Resources in Northern Illinois (in the Chicago area), specializes in assessment of gifted children and counseling for gifted adults. She became fascinated by Dabrowski's theory of positive disintegration in her native Poland almost 30 years ago and has allowed that interest to influence her personal and professional life....

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