2000_Piechowski Transpersonal Knowledge
In this paper, presented at the Fifth Biennial Henry B. & Jocelyn Wallace National Research Symposium on Talent Development in May 2000, Piechowski examines childhood spiritual experiences as evidence of transpersonal knowledge. Drawing on Robinson’s study of 362 childhood spiritual experiences, Hoffman’s research on childhood spiritual encounters, and other investigations, Piechowski argues that children spontaneously […]
2024_Piechowski_Setting the Record Straight
This is a strange case where one author criticizes another for the exact opposite of what that author said. References are cited but never a single quotation to support the misguided criticism. The aim of this paper is to set the record straight. In particular, Piechowski never suggested that the first two levels be dropped […]
Conceptual evolution of overexcitability: Descriptions and examples from the work of Michael. M. Piechowski
1982_Self-Actualization Profile of Eleanor Roosevelt
Piechowski and Tyska present a detailed case study of Eleanor Roosevelt as a self-actualizing individual, following Piechowski’s (1978) study of Saint-Exupéry. Analysis of 197 biographical statements produced a self-actualization profile strikingly similar to Saint-Exupéry’s, despite their representing Maslow’s two proposed types—the nontranscending “doer” and the transcending “seer.” The study identified two new traits not in […]
2003_From William James to Maslow and Dabrowski
This chapter introduces theoretical bridges between Maslow’s construct of self-actualization, Dąbrowski’s theory of emotional development, Bandura’s model of the self-system, and Gardner’s concept of intrapersonal intelligence. Piechowski argues that self-actualization fits into Level IV of Dąbrowski’s five levels of development, and that Bandura’s self-system furnishes the component processes of self-evaluation that Dąbrowski’s theory gains its […]
2002_Piechowski_Experiencing in a Higher Key
Piechowski introduces Dąbrowski’s theory to a gifted education audience, presenting the five overexcitabilities as the foundation of developmental potential and offering practical guidance for accepting and accommodating intensities in children. The article illustrates multilevelness through adolescent responses to the Overexcitability Questionnaire, including a case showing the shift from egocentric self-fulfillment to moral conflict, and draws […]
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.