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The theory of positive disintegration. What can be positive about disintegration, you may ask? Disintegration means breakdown, collapse, ruin, but it also means dismantling as a prelude to construction and subsequent creation at a higher level. The pheonix effect. If we think of the self as having many parts working together, we are relying on a concept of order or structure. Things can and do change in th self, as they do everywhere else in life. As a result of great loss, grief and despair, one may experience an inner fragmentation, a collapse, even a breakdown. That's the disintegration part. For example, when love has ended or left the relationship, one may become so upset that life for him loses meaning, thereby triggering a process of psychic crumbling. Such a breakdown, if he feels no hope, may proceed to a full disintegration. But one he starts to question himself and realize that others have lived through similar experiences, that one cannot make another person responsible for one's happiness, he is on th way out of the disintegration. Inner growth begins, and it's positive---a process of emotional development within the broader context of personality development. Human development is powered by the tension between the higher and lower, the good and the bad, experienced within the self. The drama of inner seeking, figuring out the world, feeling anguish, questioning the meaning of human existence, testing oneâs values and ideals, growing in empathy and understanding of othersâthese are the elements that encompass the striving for optimal human development. Human development is characterized by reflection, self-evaluation, and the urge fo inner transformation. Five overexcitabilities [superstimulatability]: 1) Psychomotor, movement, restlessness, drivenness, an augmented capacity for being active and energetic. 2) Sensual, enhanced refinement and aliveness of sensual experience. 3) Intellectual, thirst for knowledge, discovery, questioning, love of ideas and theoretical analysis, search for truth. 4) Imaginational, vividness of imagery, richness of association, facility for dreams, fantasies, and invetions, endowig toys and other objects with personality [animism], preference for the unusual and unique. 5) Emotional, great depth and intensity of emotional life expressed in a wide range of feelings, great happens to profound sadness o despair, compassion, responsibility, self-examination. Similar to the aspects of Temperment, overexcitabilities are often noticed quite early in life. For example, gifted children tend to be more active and more alert than most children and display a higher energy level, whether physical, intellectual, or emotional. Their intensity is greater than average, sometimes extreme and an overabundance of energy enhances their experience. This surplus of energy, or psychomotor overexcitability, has to be discharged through action. Liking with passion what is pleasant and disliking intensely what is unpleasant characterizes sensual overexcitability. Intellectual overexcitability is the characteristic and intelligence about the ability to solve problems, but excitability is about the passion for solving them. When emotional and mental energies meet, the mind supplies the intellectual power of concentration, while emotional energy drives the interest and the passion in pursuing them. Highly creative individuals display their equitable imagination especially in rich and surprising ways, with a vast concept encompassing activity and application in wide and diverse areas, literature, the arts, science, technology, culture and interpersonal relationships. Boredom is anathema the need fo novelty is absolute. Emotional overexcitability finds expression in a wide range of emotions and expressions and feelings. Compassion, caring, and responsibility are prominent, and it can reach extremes of sensitivity and intensity. Emotional intensity becomes evident early and and tends to stay with a person for life, It is also quite independent of what actually evoked the intense emotional response. Unfortunately the stronger these overexcitabilities are, the less peers and teachers welcome them. Developing understanding the this is the childâs innate makeup facilitates tolerance and acceptances and oneâs hopes, even an appreciation of these fertile qualities. overexcitability is often viewed by others as overreacting or as inappropriate behavior needing to be tempered. It should really be viewed, however, as a contributor to optimal development.

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