Positive disintegration by kazimierz dabrowski biography

Polish psychologist, psychiatrist, and physician

For the Polish Olympic hockey player, see Kazimierz Dąbrowski (field hockey).

Kazimierz Dąbrowski (1 September 1902 in Klarów – 26 November 1980 in Warsaw) was a Polish psychologist, psychiatrist, and physician.

Positive disintegration by kazimierz dabrowski biography

He is known for his theory of "positive disintegration" as a mechanism in personality development. He was also a poet who used the pen name "Paul Cienin, Paweł Cienin".^[1]

Biography

Kazimierz Dąbrowski was born into a Catholic family on a country estate near Lublin, in the Russian sector of Poland, the third son of four children to Antoni, an estate administrator, and his wife.

When he was six, the youngest child, a daughter aged three, died of meningitis. Kazimierz was initially schooled at home.

Positive disintegration by kazimierz dabrowski biography pdf

Later he attended "Stefan Batory" secondary school in Lublin. During World War I he was deeply shocked by the sight of the bodies of fallen soldiers strewn across a battlefield. At 16, having