Authenticity
From Enpsychopedia
- As a developmental force it is called here authentism, a dynamism which consists in the feeling, awareness and expression of one's own emotional, intellectual and volitional attitudes, achieved through autonomous developmental transformations of one's own hierarchy of values and aims. It involves a high degree of insight into oneself. Authenticity is a symptom of independence from lower instinctive levels and selective independence from influences of the external environment and the inner psychic milieu. It brings about a high degree of unity of one's thinking, emotions and activity. Authentism involves conscious activity in accordance with one's "inner truth". The appearance and growth of authentism results from the operation of such dynamisms as dissatisfaction with oneself, autonomy, the third factor, positive maladjustment, ‘subject-object' in oneself, inner psychic transformation and the personality ideal. (1970)
- Authenticity denotes a high degree of unity of one's thinking, emotions, and activity. Authentism involves conscious activity in accordance with one's "inner truth", i.e. one's autonomously developed hierarchy of values; it is a developmental force. (1972)
References
- Dabrowski, K., with Kawczak, A., & Piechowski, M. (1970). Mental Growth Through Positive Disintegration. London: Gryf Publications. 162-180.
- Dabrowski, K. (1972). Psychoneurosis is Not An Illness. London: Gryf Publications. 289-306.
- Online: http://positivedisintegration.com/glos.htm