Connecting to Dabrowski’s Theory
Dear Readers, Happy New Year, and welcome to Issue Five…
Category Archives: Issue 5: Connecting to Dabrowski’s Theory
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How to Thrive in Our Dopaminergic Society—and Maybe How to Rescue It An Interview with the Authors of The Molecule of More
Dopamine is about making the future better than the present. That makes contentment hard for dopaminergic people—which includes those people we call gifted and creative—to find contentment. Is there anything we can do about it? Jessie sat down with the authors of The Molecule of More to get their take.
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Order Out of Chaos Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Positive Disintegration
Krystyna C. Laycraft brings her training in physics and psychology together to show how chaos theory and the theory of positive disintegration are essentially talking about the same process.
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There and Half-Way Back Again: How Openness Guided My Journey through Politics
How does openness to experience affect a person’s political stance? For Andrea, it’s caused her views to continuously evolve—as has her view on disagreement itself.
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Where Intensity and Gender Dysphoria Meet
Why has gender dysphoria become so common among the gifted and intense? In this article, four detransitioned women and two transgender men share their experiences of overexcitability and the roles their intensities played in their individual experiences of gender non-conformity and dysphoria.
