POSITIVE MALADJUSTMENT - Kazimierz Dabrowski's Theory of ...

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A Vital Part of Positive Disintegration
We seem to be unable to fully develop and
achieve cultural growth without inner conflicts
and maladjustment to ourselves and to our
surroundings -- none of which are phenomena
of an integrative nature. (Dab. 1973, p. 42)
Inner anxiety, inner conflicts,maladjustments,
sorrows, and disruptions -- everything that
demeans our position in the scale of common
values, work toward our passage to a world of
higher values. (Existential Aphorisms, p. 7)