One Outrider's video: Positive Disintegration: Creation of the Autonomous Self - Sal Mendaglio

Presented July 25, 2014 at the 11th Dabrowski Congress, Canmore, Alberta, Canada. Sal Mendaglio, Ph.D. Counselling Psychology, Professor, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary Interactions with the social environment, particularly in her or his early years contributes significantly to the emergence and development of self-concept. So states, what is likely the most popular theory of self-concept development, reflected appraisals theory. From this perspective, self-concept is a social construction, that is, it is produced by our internalizing what other persons in the environment say we are. Self-concept is accepted as universal: unless there is serious cognitive-communicative impairments, everyone develops a self-concept. In this session, I discuss how, through positive disintegration, individuals transcend their socially-anchored self-concept and create an autonomous self. Positive Disintegration website http://positivedisintegration.com Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/DabrowskiInternational/