La theorie de la desintegration positive de Dabrowski : Un autre regard sur la surdouance, la sante mentale et les crises existentielles

165 Pages·2017·3.103 MB·French

by  Patricia Lamare

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Théorie de la Désintégration Positive de Dabrowski
Un autre regard sur la surdouance, la santé men-
tale et les crises existentielles.

Collection Sens & Lien

Janvier 2017
2e Edition septembre 2019
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Remerciements

Je ne peux qu’adresser ma plus chaleureuse gratitude à la Vie qui m’a
permis ce parcours passionnant dans lequel j’évolue : pour cela un
grand merci à mes parents Georgette et Claude. Puis, ma gratitude va
directement à nos enfants Fanny, Clémentine, François et Jean qui
nous accompagnent quotidiennement et nous ont poussé à appré-
hender de nouvelles idées, chercher d’autres solutions, nous ont
encouragé dans nos diverses réorientations professionnelles. Enfin,
toute ma reconnaissance et mon amour vont à Philippe, mari et com-
pagnon de vie non seulement pour son soutien inconditionnel dans
toutes mes quêtes, même les plus folles, ses idées les plus inatten-
dues voire fantaisistes quelquefois mais qui ont toujours eu du sens,
mais aussi et surtout son amour inconditionnel.

Je suis particulièrement reconnaissante à la Vie de m’avoir permis de
rencontrer Michael Piechowski qui a eu la bonté de bien vouloir relire
cet ouvrage, d’y apporter les corrections et précisions nécessaires et
de préfacer cette 2eme édition.

Un grand merci à tous mes amis qui m’ont soutenue dans la rédaction
de cet ouvrage, qui en ont assuré la relecture et ont su me trans-
mettre des remarques très pertinentes et utiles, en particulier Nicolas
et Hubert, qui furent d’une aide précieuse pour le graphisme et les
dessins.

Enfin merci à Cathy et à mes collègues, Juliette, Garance et Sarra de
l’AFEP (Association Française pour les Enfants Précoces) Centre, parti-
culièrement actifs sur le champ de la précocité et qui m’ont permis de
rencontrer et d’intégrer un réseau de praticiens spécialisés dans ce
domaine toujours en mouvance.

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Preface de Michael Piechowski

This is a much needed book. Patricia Lamare has done a tremendous
service to the French-speaking world by providing a clear and concise
introduction to the theory that illuminates inner growth process.
Dąbrowski was more fluent in French than in English. He did his doc-
toral work in Geneva, and went to Paris to hear lectures by Pierre
Janet. Many of his seminal ideas were first published in Annales
Médico-psychologiques. Years passed and no one in France picked up
the thread of his theory until Patricia Lamare discovered his work just
a few short years ago. Her book La Théorie de la Désintégration Posi-
tive de Dąbrowski is very much in the spirit of his profound
understanding of emotional development. The subtitle announces it
splendidly: Un autre regard sur la surdouance, la santé mentale et les
crises existentielles.
Dąbrowski developed his theory in order to bring hope and under-
standing to the gifted and creative whose lack of adaptation is looked
upon as a weakness but is, in fact, moral strength. He investigated
mental health in gifted children and adults. He took the intensity of
their emotions, their sensitivity, and tendency toward emotional ex-
tremes, as part and parcel of their psycho-physical makeup. In their
intensified manner of experiencing, feeling, thinking, and imagining,
he perceived a potential for further growth. He saw inner forces at
work generating overstimulation, conflict, and pain, but also involving
a search for a way through the pain, strife, and disharmony. His
theory is about how this takes place.
The theory emerged from the neurology and clinical experience of the
late 19th and early 20th century. Dąbrowski addressed the problem
of the tension of unbearably intense emotional experience that can
only be resolved through self-mutilation, suicide, or inner transforma-
tion. He identified the potential for advanced development in the
qualities of heightened experiencing (overexcitabilities) and in the
“own forces” of autonomous self-determination. Dabrowski’s idea
that not everything that looks pathological is a dysfunction or malad-
justment has yet to be more widely understood.
Dąbrowski’s mission in developing his theory was to depathologize
the characteristics of intense agonizing experience and instead to
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show that what used to be called psychoneurosis and thought of as
mental illness is, in fact, a process of personal growth. Positive disin-
tegration may look like an illness, and it feels like an illness to the
individual suffering through it, but it is a natural process of inner
transformation just like the caterpillar turning into a chrysalis that
through profound inner upheavals turns into a butterfly. The caterpil-
lar’s positive disintegration inside the chrysalis proceeds on automatic
pilot, but for their inner transformation human beings need a pilot,
one that is good and wise—a therapist or counselor who understands
the nature of the process of advanced development.
Patricia Lamare recognizes the validity of identifying potential for
growth toward psychological health amidst existential anxieties, inner
conflicts, and depressions. The well-conceived diagrams in the book
facilitate grasping the essential concepts of the theory. She places the
theory in the context of other psychological, philosophical, and spiri-
tual perspectives. In this way the reader learns what is truly original
that the theory offers.
Distinctive to the theory of positive disintegration is a developmental
concept of mental health. It is this concept that reorients psychothe-
rapy with individuals, especially gifted and creative ones, struggling
with inner conflicts and existential anxieties and depressions. In the
last part of the book Patricia Lamare shares her insights into the deve-
lopmental issues of gifted children, adolescents and adults. She
makes a particular point of showing the emotional differences be-
tween boys and girls, men and women, each requiring a different
approach. And she also includes insights into the spiritual aspect of
emotional development. Gifted individual undergoing existential cris-
es may discover the spiritual nature of their quest. Patricia Lamare
approaches this subject knowledgeably, with sensitivity while drawing
on a broad range of sources.
Patricia Lamare has supplemented her book with inspiring excerpts,
letters, and poems from Dąbrowski, Einstein, Mandela, Mnouchkine,
and Medeiros that help the reader recognize elements of their own
personal growth.
Michael Piechowski
26 sept 2019
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A Tom et Mousse

« La guérison est la rencontre d’une blessure et d’un sens »
Denis MARQUET (Nos enfants sont des merveilles – Ed. Nil)

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