Dabrowski's Overexcitabilities

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Hi there,

I just read some short summaries about Dabrowski's Overexcitablitities http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overexcitability (btw, does anyone know a more complete, up to date, and good book about his theories?) . It seems that the categorized some "sensitivities" (deviations from the norm), e.g. emotional sensitivity, sensory sensitivity and so on. Furthermore, he does not regard them as "problems" but as challenges, necessary challenges to become a more complex and better personality.

This sounds intriguing to me, and I wonder how all this relates to AS. So far, I am convinced that the phenomenon of AS has a neuronal foundation, and results from sensory and emotional sensitivities. This sounds very similar to AS, doesn't it?

This sounds to me that, AS summarizes people which have emotional and sensory sensitivities that lead somehow to problems in social interaction and executive dyfunction. If you got some other sensitivities, then it might be diagnosed as something else...

What do you think? Anyone who has put more research into this?

thanks alot,

anton

I read his papers some time back and came to the conclusion that he just gave a different name to AS

I'd be surprised if the current thinkers on the theory of positive disintegration would say it is the same as AS. I relate to being maladapted to what is for what ought to be though (higher values/hierarchy of values). I also like their take on Plato, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard.
Dabrowski's Theory Of Positive Disintegration [Paperback]
Sal (Author), Ph.D. Mendaglio (Author)