Piechowski 2002
Experiencing in a Higher Key
1989_Piechowski_DP and the Growth of the Self
Piechowski, M. M. (1989). Developmental potential and the growth of the self. In J. VanTassel-Baska & P. Olszewski-Kubilius (Eds.), Patterns of influence on gifted learners: The home, the school, and the self (pp. 87-101). Teachers College Press.
An Interview with Michael Piechowski: Recipient of SENG’s Lifetime Achievement Award
1993_”Origins” Without Origins_Exceptional Abilities Explained Away
Book review by MMP from Creativity Research Journal. The book reviewed was The Origins of Exceptional Abilities by Michael J. A. Howe (1990).
1999_Piechowski_Inner Growth: Unilevel and Multilevel Development According to Dabrowski’s Theory
Handout from a talk given by Dr. Michael M. Piechowski at the 12th Annual Hollingworth Conference in Manchester, New Hampshire, May 1-2, 1999.
1983_Personal Growth: An Empirical Study Using Jungian and Dabrowskian Measures
Lysy and Piechowski
1968_Dabrowski_Le Milieu Psychique Interne
The Inner Psychic Milieu. This is Chapter IV from Mental Growth through Positive Disintegration. Michael M. Piechowski assisted and created the diagram but is not listed as co-author.
1969_Les emotions superieures et l’objectivite d’evaluation
Dabrowski-Piechowski 1969 Higher Emotions and the Objectivity of Valuation. This paper is also Chapter V in Mental Growth through Positive Disintegration (1970).
1974_Two Developmental Concepts: Multilevelness and Developmental Potential
The theory of positive disintegration appears to be deceptively simple. It tells us that the development of individuality occurs in successive stages, wherein each succeeding stage is higher than the previous one. “Higher” means more awareness, more mental control, more Rogerian openness to experience, more empathy, more individual responsibility. To get from one level to […]
1978_Self-actualization as a developmental structure: A profile of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The characteristics of self-actualization are fully reflected in excerpts from Saint-Exupéry’s autobiographical writings. The correspondence between the characteristics of self-actualization and Saint-Exupéry’s developmental profile gains special significance because there exists, independently, a theoretical structure corresponding both to self-actualization and to Saint-Exupéry’s material. This structure—level IV in the theory of positive disintegration—has previously been shown to […]