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Mendaglio, S. (Ed.). (2007). Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration.

Publication: Roeper Review
Publication Date: 01-APR-09 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Mendaglio, S. (Ed.). (2007). Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration.(Brief article)(Book review)

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Mendaglio, S. (Ed.). (2007). Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration. Scottsdale, AZ: Great Potential Press (308 pp., $39.95, cloth, ISBN: 0-910707-84-7).

With this edited volume, Sal Mendaglio sets out to integrate under one cover the multiple facets of Kazimierz Dabrowski's theory of positive disintegration (TPD). To this end, he invited 11 authors to write on a variety of related topics and personally contributed 2 chapters to this 13-chapter book.

Section one, "The Theory of Positive Disintegration," contains 7 chapters, beginning with a biographical portrait of Dabrowski and going on to explain the theory itself, as well as Dabrowski's perspectives on education, authentic mental health, the relationship between TPD and philosophy, and creativity.

The second section, "TPD and Giftedness," focuses on the application of TPD to the field of gifted education and its contribution to understanding gifted development. The final chapter of this section is a review of the research literature on overexcitabilities, an aspect of TPD that posits heightened excitability in one or more of five different areas. These areas include emotional (intense feelings),...

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