How mental health symptoms can be reframed as positive
“The work of Kazimierz Dabrowski provides an excellent framework in which to understand the supersensitivity or overexcitability frequently found in the intellectually or creatively gifted.”
Authors on giftedness such as Susan Daniels, Michael Piechowski and Stephanie Tolan note the original Polish word for psychiatrist Dabrowski’s concept of overexcitabilities can be translated more literally as “superstimulatabilities” or “superexcitabilities” in five areas: psychomotor, intellectual, imaginational, emotional and sensual.
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