Emotional immaturity
From Enpsychopedia
- EMOTIONAL IMMATURITY, positive, is to be distinguished from its negative form i.e. emotional or affective retardation (cf.).
It does not adapt to the biopsychic developmental phases and transcends the biological cycle of life. Positive emotional immaturity consists in the endurance and persistence of a variety of emotional and in part intellectual qualities and functions which are characteristic of childhood and youth. Qualities such as sincerity, outrightness, straight forwardness, syntony, enthusiasm, lack of mental rigidity and stereotypy, magical and animistic thinking, elements specific in creative thinking become a source of plasticity, creative development and ability to transform one's psychological type. Frequently this kind of "immaturity" is associated with tendencies towards positive regression. (cf.). (1970)
References
- Dabrowski, K., with Kawczak, A., & Piechowski, M. (1970).Mental Growth Through Positive Disintegration. London: Gryf Publications. 162-180.
- Online: http://positivedisintegration.com/glos.htm