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The Neural Architecture of Transformation: Bridging Dąbrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration and Hyperneuroplasticity
Dąbrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration anticipated what neuroscience now begins to affirm: certain nervous systems are built for transformation. Hyperneuroplasticity may provide the biological foundation for developmental potential, with the third factor as its governing mechanism and multilevelness as its structural expression.

Dr. Patty Gently
Oct 249 min read


Self-Via-Echolocation and the Ache of Existential Homesickness
Together, an understanding of self-via-echolocation and existential homesickness helps with the process of integration found through an oscillation between outward resonance and inward coherence.

Dr. Patty Gently
Oct 213 min read


Entangled Autopoiesis Meets HNP: Why “Therapy” Works as a System
the goal is to co-create conditions where the system’s own intelligence can reorganize into new forms of stability and meaning

Dr. Patty Gently
Oct 48 min read


Hyperneuroplasticity Across the Lifespan
Looking across the lifespan, hyperneuroplasticity emerges as a systemic orientation that permeates every stage of development, rather than a temporary trait to be gained or lost.

Dr. Patty Gently
Sep 148 min read


Dynamic Systems, Process Metaphysics, and Hyperneuroplasticity: Stability Through Flux
Epigenetics illustrates how coherence at the cellular level is achieved through regulatory processes that are themselves mutable. Process metaphysics explains this at the level of being, while hyperneuroplasticity captures it in the lived experience of certain neurobiological profiles. Whether at the scale of molecules, neural networks, or whole organisms, stability arises by transforming with change rather than resisting it.

Dr. Patty Gently
Sep 39 min read


Sitting in the Between: Notes from a Psychological Interregnum
Between the old and the new, something deeply human takes place: the making and unmaking of meaning.

Dr. Patty Gently
Aug 46 min read


The Fullness of the Half-Empty Shelf
They did not cease to matter, but that I no longer needed their mattering to hold its form, or mine.

Reuven Kotleras
Jun 303 min read


Winnicott, Early Crisis, and the Buried True Self
I actually had the option of running down the stairs and out into the street, screaming. Yet when I actually considered doing so, I decided against it because I reasoned that it seemed highly unlikely to solve any problem that I was experiencing, and indeed appeared to risk creating more problems instead.

Reuven Kotleras
Jun 298 min read


What’s Wrong with Therapy (And What Isn’t): A Former Therapist’s Perspective
The human soul does not reorganize itself to meet billing cycles. Sometimes “what just is" resides in liminal spaces.

Dr. Patty Gently
Jun 248 min read


Navigating Growth: A Roadmap for Dąbrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration
This analogy of a vehicle, a path, an engine, and fuel offers a relatable way to understand Dąbrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintigration

Dr. Patty Gently
Dec 1, 20247 min read


Expanding Developmental Horizons: The Crucial Role of Imaginational Overexcitability
If you’ve ever felt like you experience the world much “more” than others, you are not alone, you are needed.

Dr. Patty Gently
Nov 27, 20248 min read


Navigating Relationships as a Gifted Individual
There it was - finally proof that I was intuiting correctly. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been dismissed or told that I was crazy.

Tiana Pomaybo
Oct 2, 20249 min read


On Movement: A Becoming
The one to break the silence, to stir the stillness, to craft new life from the bones of the past.

Dr. Patty Gently
Sep 26, 20242 min read


Giftedness and Magical Thinking: How Magical Is It?
How many of us gifted pattern-finders and meaning-makers have been accused of magical thinking or something similar such as apophenia?

Dr. Patty Gently
Aug 28, 20248 min read


Discovering Giftedness (Part 1)
Sharing how the journey started and the joys and struggles along the way.

Dr. Lily Jedynak
May 12, 20247 min read


Creating the Safe Space (Part Two): Safety and Excitability
"And while I love the odd and fantastical, I want to feel safe and know that weird is OK and so am I." #DrPatty2e

Dr. Patty Gently
Nov 7, 20235 min read


Dealing With Big Feelings? You’re Not the Only One
By Youssef Sleiman Oct. 31, 2023 Quirky, wordy and lightning-fast at the keyboard, Youssef Sleiman is a professional writer and brand...

Youssef Sleiman
Oct 31, 20234 min read


Post-BITT Dream
By Reuven Kotleras on October 8, 2023 Reuven Kotleras is a profoundly gifted ex-child and polymath. He has published professionally on...

Reuven Kotleras
Oct 8, 20236 min read


Innateness and All That
By Reuven Kotleras on October 4, 2023 Reuven Kotleras is a profoundly gifted ex-child and polymath. He has published professionally on...

Reuven Kotleras
Oct 4, 20236 min read
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