Understanding Viewpoints Based on Dabrowski Levels — Inner Growth in Gifted Adults

Part 2 of Gifted Baby Boomers, How They Were Raised, and What Was on Their Minds as They Raised You …

… and how it might still be affecting you, your parenting, and your relationships. Dabrowski’s theory came after your Baby Boomer relatives were already grown up. Before that, not many people got therapy. But that doesn’t mean they weren’t trying to figure themselves out. That’s what this article is about.

Readers familiar with Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration …

… know that positive disintegrations are episodes in the maturing individual’s inner life where old viewpoints are now seen as questionable rather than naively acceptable. Although it is probably more likely that it will at least passingly occur to highly intelligent people, than for people of more average intellect, that some things that are should not be, my research shows that many intelligent people clearly do not tackle these questions to any substantial degree.

The more self-controlled, “can do” thinking of the G. I. generation and many of their descendants leads many people from that group to make the best of a less than perfect world…