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Volume 12 (2010): Life Transitions

Editor: Nancy Miller, Associate Editor: Michael Piechowski

Volume 12 provides a colorful diversity of themes, research approaches, and perspectives. Three articles offer insight into life transitions: (1) Joel Lefever’s paper describes the discovery of twice-exceptionality; (2) William Green and Kathleen Noble discuss the development of spiritual intelligence; (3) Michael Davis explains his model for a transition of the mind.

Three articles, a response, and a rejoinder use Dabrowski’s theory of positive disintegration as a framework. Lawrence Nixon addresses individual identity and union with the absolute. In an autoethnography, Jane Piirto illuminates the interplay of the personal and the objective in the research process. Michael Piechowski adds his side to the story. Piirto then provides a rejoinder to his comments. Alena Treat uses a unique research technique called photovoice to illustrate emotional intensity. Finally, poetry provides it own lens into human emotion and life transitions.

Table of Contents

Digging In and Finding Giftedness: An Autobiographical Case Study

Joel Lefever

Fostering Spiritual Intelligence: Undergraduates’ Growth in a Course About Consciousness   

William N. Green and Kathleen D. Noble

Individual Identity and Union With the Absolute: An Analysis of Dabrowski’s Critique of Asian Religions

Laurence F. Nixon

21 Years With the Dabrowski Theory:  An Autoethnography

Jane Piirto

Comment on Jane Piirto’s “21 Years With the Dabrowski’s Theory”

Michael M. Piechowski

Rejoinder

Jane Piirto

La Vida Intensa:  Photovoice Portrait of a Lesbian Living With Overexcitabilities

Alena R. Treat

Three Parts of the Mind: A Model for Transformation

Michael Davis

Raconteur (Poetry)

Jean Sunde Peterson

Nightmare (Poetry)

Stephanie S. Tolan 

Waco (Poetry)

F. Christopher Reynolds

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Previous issues include:
(Please click on each title for more information or to order.)

Volume 1 - Positive Disintegration

Volume 2 - Models of Integration

Volume 3 - The Possible Human

Volume 4 - The Self

Volume 5 - Valuing the Feminine

Volume 6 - Becoming Authentic

1995 Special Edition on Gifted Adults

Volume 7 - A Kaleidoscope of Creativity

Volume 8 - Counseling Gifted Adults

Volume 9 - Spirituality and Giftedness

Volume 10 - Exploring Intuition

Volume 11 - Social Issues of the Gifted