In his terms, it can lead us either to negative disintegration, regression to ineffective ways of being, and even to possible illness, or to a positive disintegration, an unusual take on the world, conducive to higher development and growth. Rather as in the British Psychological Society (BPS) article I quoted from last time, Dabrowski sees suffering as triggering a process that can move in either of two directions.
THEORY OF POSITIVE DISINTEGRATION SERIES
I will have to summarise fairly brutally here if I am to avoid seriously over-inflating this series of posts. However, I am already convinced that this approach to the human predicament has a huge amount to offer – not least on the issue of suffering and a related issue, sacrifice.
THEORY OF POSITIVE DISINTEGRATION FULL
Some of the chapters are excellent while others leave too many gaps in the thinking to do full justice to the aspect of his theory they are tackling. I’ve not quite finished the book yet and it is rather uneven. The Role of Suffering in Personal GrowthĪfter the first more general post on this issue, this one brings me onto a more detailed consideration of Sal Mendaglio’s book about Dabrowski’s Theory of Personal Disintegration (TPD). They will be interwoven another sequence over a three week period. It seems appropriate to publish them yet again, because I have been pondering on the issue of theodicy in preparation from my talk in May at a humanist group. This is the second of three posts originally published in 2012, then again in 2014, 20. Look back to the times past and you will find that the greatest men have suffered most.
Man is, so to speak, unripe: the heat of the fire of suffering will mature him. His attitude in this world will be that of divine happiness. Just as the plough furrows the earth deeply, purifying it of weeds and thistles, so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs of this worldly life until he arrives at a state of complete detachment. The more the ground is ploughed the better the seed will grow, the better the harvest will be. The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering.
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