Level I: Primary Integration
Love and Leveling Up: Attachment Theory and Positive Disintegration A Personal Narrative
Attachment theory helped Merrill understand why she was struggling with relationships. But did it mean that she was doomed to be insecurely attached forever? The lens of positive disintegration helped her trust that it didn’t have to be that way.
Getting Acquainted with a Stranger
From her earliest days as an intense, gifted girl, Benita Jeanelle spent her life trying to be who she was expected to be, and to achieve what she was supposed to achieve—until it caused her very personality to fragment.
An Introduction to Dabrowski’s Levels and Dynamisms
- Issue 2: Harnessing Overexcitability
- Autopsychotherapy
- Dynamisms
- Level I: Primary Integration
- Level II: Unilevel Disintegration
- Level III: Spontaneous Multilevel Disintegration
- Level IV: Organized Multilevel Disintegration
- Level V: Secondary Integration
- Personality Ideal
- Subject-Object in Oneself
- Third Factor (dynamism)
Dabrowski’s hierarchy of levels is one of the most well-known aspects of his theory of positive disintegration. But what’s really going on in those levels? And what are those “dynamism” things, anyway? The editors of Third Factor Magazine explain the basics here.
The Journey Back From Hades: Reclaiming America Through Positive Disintegration
In this elegantly crafted, piercingly insightful piece, psychologist Elizabeth Mika describes precisely why the theory of positive disintegration is the right theory for the Trump era.