Dabrowski's+TPD+Levels

instrumental view of others ||< Concern with meeting primary needs; self serving and concerned with egocentric needs. || inner fragmentation ||< Many identities of self; submission to the values of peer groups rather than establishment of independent identity; relativism of morals and values. ||
 * < **Level** ||< **Title** ||< **Defining Phrase** ||< **Characteristics** ||< **Description** ||
 * < I ||< Primary Integration ||< //Dog-eat-dog// ||< ego-centric
 * < II ||< Unilevel Disintegration ||< //A reed shaken in the wind// ||< lack of inner direction
 * < III ||< Spontaneous Multilevel Disintegration ||< //Video meliora proboque detoriora sequor// ||< **Sense of the ideal but not reaching it; moral concerns; sense of the higher vs. sense of the lower in oneself**

Hierarchy of Values and Social Conscience Hierarchization and Empathy

Positive Maladjustment and Empathy

Emotionally Charged Self-Reactions and Self-Judgments, Dissatisfaction with Oneself, Inferiority toward Oneself

Disquietude with Oneself

Astonishment with Oneself

Shame

Guilt ||< What is contrasted with What ought to be

Protest against violation of ethical principles

Anger at what is undesirable in oneself; self-loathing; And at what is lacking in oneself, of not realizing one's potential

Disharmony in one's inner state of being

Surprise in regard to what is undesirable in oneself

Shame over deficiencies and others' view of one's moral standard

Guilt over moral failure; a need to repay and expiate ||
 * < IV ||< Organized Multilevel Disintegration ||< //Behind tranquility lies conquered unhappiness// ||< **Self-actualization; ideals and actions agree; strong sense of responsibility on behalf of others' well-being and inner growth**

Subject-Object in Oneself

Third Factor

Responsibility

Inner Psychic Transformation

Education of Oneself

Autopsychotherapy

Self-Control

Self-Awareness

Autonomy ||< The process of critical examination of one's motives and aims

The executive power of choice and decision in one's inner life

Taking on tasks for the sake of one's own and others' development; empathy toward social needs

Inner restructuring at a deep level with lasting consequences beyond return to lower-level functioning

A program of change

Self-designed psychotherapy and preventive measures

Regulating development and keeping in check interfering processes

Knowledge of one's uniqueness, developmental needs and existential responsibility

Confidence in one's development; freedom from lower-level drives and motivations ||
 * < V ||< Secondary Integration ||< //A magnetic field in the soul// ||< **Life inspired by a powerful ideal**

Personality Ideal ||< The ultimate goal of development || - Adapted from Piechowski, 2008