Pathologization of Developmental Processes: Positive Disintegration, Overexcitability, and the Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder | Synapse
March 15, 2026Open Access
Pathologization of Developmental Processes: Positive Disintegration, Overexcitability, and the Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder
Key Points
This research addresses the classification issues of Dabrowski's Theory within psychiatric diagnoses.
Analysis of current diagnostic systems
Examination of Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration
Review of Overexcitability as a symptom
Identified the structural tendency to misclassify developmental processes as bipolar disorder
Highlighted the implications for diagnostic practices in psychiatry
Abstract
A working paper examining the structural tendency for Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration and Overexcitability to be misclassified as bipolar disorder within current diagnostic systems.