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Ercole, V. (2017), “Sacrifice, Self-Formation and Self-Overcoming in Nietzsche,”
Parrhesia; Freeman, “Nietzsche & Asian Philosophy: Why Nietzsche?” (University of Hawaii System); Grant, P. (2014), The Letters of Vincent van Gogh: A Critical Study (AU Press);
Laycraft, K. C. (2020), “The Theory of Positive Disintegration as Future-Oriented Psychology,” Annals of Cognitive Science;
Lee, K., Choi, S. Y., & Choi, U. S., “Lifelong Learning to Be in Nietzsche’s Philosophy” (International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics);
Mannisto, J. (2018), “An Introduction to Dabrowski’s Levels and Dynamisms,” Third Factor Magazine; Panovski,
A. (2023), “The Genius Behind Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra in 5 Points,” TheCollector; Piechowski, M. M., Dabrowski timeline excerpts from project files;
Pieper, A. (2021), “The Three Metamorphoses: A Genealogy of the Spirit,” in Nietzsche as German Philosopher (Cambridge University Press);
Rankin, J. G. (2025), “Why Some High-IQ People May Be Overexcitable,” Psychology Today; Rolheiser, R. (2018), “John of the Cross and the Dark Night of the Soul,” Oblate School of Theology;
Schläppy, M.-L. (2019), “Understanding Mental Health Through the Theory of Positive Disintegration,” Frontiers in Psychology; Thorgeirsdottir, S. (2010),
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Colombetti, G. (2017). The embodied and situated nature of moods. Philosophia, 45, 1437-1451.
Krueger, J. (2020). Schizophrenia and the scaffolded self. Topoi, 39(3), 597-609.
Merleau-Ponty, M. (1945/2012). Phenomenology of Perception (Landes, D. trans.). United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.
Pienkos, E. (2020). Schizophrenia in the world: arguments for a contextual phenomenology of psychopathology. Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 51(2), 184-206.
Stanghellini, G., Broome, M., Raballo, A., Fernandez, A. V., Fusar-Poli, P., & Rosfort, R. (eds.). (2019). The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology. United States of America: Oxford University Press
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