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