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Created October 18, 2001.

Please feel free to e-mail me with suggested additions. These links are not presented in any particular order, other than new additions are now placed on top.

Readers will find many interpretations of Dabrowski's original theory and works in the secondary sources. As always, for those interested in what he originally said, I encourage readers to obtain his original works. These materials are now available on CD from Bill Tillier.

-Great Potential Press Our mission is to publish quality books and materials, based on research and life experience, to guide parents and teachers through the world of giftedness. We strive to provide the necessary knowledge to support, encourage, and foster growth in gifted kids. Publisher of Mendaglio 2008.

-MIKA 1 MIKA 2 Two excellent overviews by E. Mika

-HighlySensitivePeople.com People with the trait of high sensitivity and the people in their lives.

- JAGC (http://www.jeffcogifted.org/) is an affiliate of the Colorado Association for Gifted and Talented, composed of parents, teachers, administrators and community leaders committed to providing appropriate learning experiences for high ability students.

-http://www.qagtc.org.au/conf2005/QAGTC_intensitive.pdf INTENSITIVE! Intensities and Sensitivities of the Gifted by Linda Kreger Silverman Brisbane, Queensland March 12, 2005

-http://www.sengifted.org/articles_directorscorner/Ackerman_Oct.shtml Director's Corner Author: Cheryl Ackerman From The SENG Update of: October 2004 Topic: Dabrowski's TPD

-http://www.sengifted.org/articles_social/Lind_OverexcitabilityAndTheGifted.shtml Social and Emotional Issues Title: Overexcitability and the gifted Citation: From The SENG Newsletter. 2001, 1(1) 3-6.
Author: Sharon Lind Online since: August 2002 A download of a printer-friendly version (PDF) is available.

-http://groups.msn.com/ADAP/dabrowskigettoknowhiswork.msnw Advocates for Developing Academic Potential. This website is a public service maintained by Cynthia Lardner serving the gifted/2E, two underpresented populations. The young and the old need to have a place where they can be heard, and where they can meander down a road guided by a vision that change, tolerance and growth will occur. Change is always possible! As Helen Keller once said, "Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it." Scroll the menu on the left for several Dabrowski links.

-http://www.educationaloptions.com/need_counseling.htm If You're So Smart, Why Do You Need Counseling? (Published in Advanced Development Journal, Vol. 8, 1999) by Deborah L. Ruf

-http://www.christotherapy.com/
Dr. Bernard Tyrrell: Christotherapy is born of the author's personal struggles with emotional issues, addiction and the needs each person experiences to grow daily in ever richer dimensions of healing and ever higher levels of integration. The author of Christotherapy is now also dealing with multiple sclerosis. The methods of Christotherapy have proved invaluable in dealing with this disease. The experience of this disease has also opened the author to the whole world of the physically as well as emotionally and spiritually challenged. See Christotherapy II, Chapter 13.

-http://life-issues.com/surviving%20a%20life%20crisis.htm
Surviving a Life Crisis
By George Hartwell M.Sc. Toronto Christian Counsellor, personal therapist, marriage and family counselor.
October 2003

-http://gifted.ucalgary.ca/
Centre for Gifted Education. University of Calgary

-Foundations for Understanding the Social-Emotional Needs of the Highly Gifted
Author: Ellen D. Fiedler, Ph.D. Source: Highly Gifted Children, Vol XII, No. 1, 1998

-http://www.soulstirring.org/artist.pl?kevin_johnson&index=1
Webpage of Kevin Johnson

-http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/living_with_oes.htm
Living & Learning with Dabrowski's Overexcitabilities. A teaching unit by Cindy Strickland

-'Mellow Out' They Say. If I Only Could. Intensities and Sensitivities of the Young and Bright by Michael M. Piechowski,

-Web pages on Dabrowski by E. Mika:
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/positive_disint.htm
Theory of Positive Disintegration
http://austega.com/gifted/articles/Mika_positivedisintegration.htm
Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration. By Elizabeth Mika (Presentation Notes for an OGT Conference October 2002).

-http://www.stephanietolan.com/dabrowskis.htm
Dabrowski's Over-excitabilities: A Layman's Explanation by Stephanie S. Tolan

-http://www.stephanietolan.com/is_it_a_cheetah.htm
Is it a Cheetah? By S. Tolan.

-http://www.positivedisintegration.com/
This is the main Dabrowski site created and maintained by Bill Tillier. Bill is a Canadian psychologist who studied with Dabrowski. Over the past 25 years, Bill has been involved in collecting Dabrowski’s work and disseminating it. He also organized the Dabrowski conference in 1996 and the 2004 conference in Calgary.

-http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dabrowskidiscussiongroup
A Dabrowski Bulletin Board./Discussion Group. Contains discussion on a wide variety of issues relating to Dabrowski by psychologists, educators and other professionals.

-http://talentdevelop.com/Page55.html
This is the new site put out by Douglas Eby.
Also see:http://talentdevelop.com/selftest.html

-http://www.jorsm.com/~kaityf/overexc.htm
This is a paper by Stephanie Tolan called 'Dabrowski's Overexcitabilities A Layman's Explanation.'

-http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/1019/Interests/potential.html
This is a paper done by Josh Shaine.

-http://www.hsperson.com/
This is a theory developed by Elaine Aron. She describes "over-sensitivities" that are like allergies and suggests that people who experience these "over-sensitivities" need to identify them and learn to avoid them in life. For example, if a person has an increased sensitivity to flourescent lights, they need to avoid exposure to these lights. I don't think one could stretch this concept to apply to what Dabrowski described as overexcitabilities, as far as I see, they are simply different ideas. I include the link here because people may associate Aron's work with Dabrowski because of her use of the term oversensitivity.

-http://www.tki.org.nz/r/gifted/pedagogy/dabrowski_e.php
This is part of 'Te Kete Ipurangi' - the Online Learning Centre, part of New Zealand's bilingual education portal, an initiative of the Ministry of Education. A short description of Dabrowski and links and references.

-http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/sensitivity.htm
Sensitivity. This is from a website called Hoagies' Gifted Education Page run by Carolyn K.

-http://borntoexplore.org/overexcite.htm
This is the website run by Teresa Gallagher called Born to Explore! The Other Side of ADD. Several people see a link between ADHD and TPD.

-http://www.sensitiveperson.com/
A site called Being Sensitive -- in an Insensitive World by Thomas Eldridge. I think this work is along the lines of Aron's theory, not Dabrowski.

-http://members.aol.com/SvenNord/ed/adhdvsoe.htm
A chart comparing ADHD and OE

-http://www.rocamora.org/
This "gifted" institute has a "Self-test on Giftedness" based on Dabrowski's theory.

-http://online.uis.edu/spring2000/phi452/
This is a class taught by Dr. Piotr Boltuc called, 'PERSON, IDENTITY AND DIGNITY.' I believe a large portion of this material is on Dabrowski.

-http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/jcertain.html
This is the essay by William James that presents a very similar view of human overexcitabilities. Of course, does not mention Dabrowski.

-http://www.archives.ca/02/02012302_e.html
The National Archives of Canada. Put Dabrowski into the search engine to see results (in French).

-http://www.spiraldynamics.com/
Dr. Don Beck presents the theory of Spiral Dynamics, a hierarchical model similar to Dabrowski’s.

-http://abccalgary.org/articles.html
Calgary Action for Bright Children. Reviews many related links.

-http://www.jorsm.com/~kaityf/about.htm
About Giftedness - related links.

-http://www.vanishingtattoo.com/pj_reece.htm
This is the site of P. J. Reece, the filmmaker who did the two Filmwest movies on Dabrowski.

-http://www.esalenctr.org/display/aboutpage.cfm?ID=19
The site of Esalen Institute and a mention of the 1968 paper that Dabrowski gave there.

-http://www.breakoutofthebox.com/sacredsorrow.htm
A Sacred Sorrow - a look at positive aspects of depression (discusses Dabrowski) . . . In Chapter 16 of Sacred Sorrows, Joanna Macy suggests that 'going to pieces or falling apart is not such a bad thing'

-http://www.eduref.org/
The United State's Department of Education's database on gifted and disabled children.

-http://www.enlightenment.com/media/essays/consciousnesstimeline.html
This is an outstanding time-line of "consciousness, transformation, and spirituality" compiled by Steven Dinan. It includes Dabrowski, under the entry for 1964.

-http://www.nswagtc.org.au/info/articles/SwordUnderstandingEmotional.html
Understanding The Emotional, Intellectual and Social Uniqueness Of Growing Up Gifted By Lesley Sword

-http://www.educationaloptions.com/gifted_adult_study.htm
Environmental, Familial, and Personal Factors That Affect the Self-Actualization of Highly Gifted Adults: Case Studies Doctoral Dissertation Introduction and Literature Review, Deborah L. Ruf, Ph.D.

There are the following references on the ERIC data base:

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ED371537. Images in Transition. Proceedings of the Annual Society for the Advancement of Gifted Education (SAGE) Conference (3rd, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, September 24-26, 1992) and the Canadian Symposium on Gifted Education (6th). . 1992
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ED387975. Hafenstein, Norma Lu; Tucker, Brooke. Psychological Intensities in Young Gifted Children. . 1995
EJ553957. Tucker, Brooke; Hafenstein, Norma Lu. Psychological Intensities in Young Gifted Children. Gifted Child Quarterly; v41 n3 p66-75 Sum 1997. 1997
EJ568632. Hague, William J.. Is There Moral Giftedness? Gifted Education International; v12 n3 p170-74 1998. 1998
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EJ454458. Lewis, Rena B.; And Others. Psychological Intensities in Gifted Adults. Roeper Review; v15 n1 p25-31 Sep 1992. 1992
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