Living with Intensity

Understanding the Sensitivity, Excitability, and the Emotional Development of Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Adults

By: Susan Daniels PhD, Michael Piechowski PhD

Narrated by: Camille Mazant

Gifted children and adults are often misunderstood. Their excitement is viewed as excessive, their high energy as hyperactivity, their persistence as nagging, their imagination as not paying attention, their passion as being disruptive, their strong emotions and sensitivity as immaturity, their creativity and self-directedness as oppositional.

This resource describes these overexcitabilities and strategies for dealing with children and adults who are experiencing them and provides essential information about Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration. Learn practical methods for nurturing sensitivity, intensity, perfectionism, and much more.

This audio edition of Living with Intensity is skillfully narrated by Camille Mazant.

©2008 Great Potential Press. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2008 Great Potential Press (P)2024 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

Invaluable Read

Organized & thoroughly presented citing research and examples. It is a gift to gifted children, adults, and families.

Terrible narrator, outdated book

The whole theme of the book, Dabrowski's five overexcitabilities, feels out of date. He presented them in the 1960's before ADHD and autism were diagnosed like they are today (they didn't even exist as diagnoses back then I think), and to me it sounds like some of these overexcitabilities are in fact autism or ADHD traits. Thus what is described isn't just gifted people, but also possibly twice exceptional (gifted + neurodivergent). While that may also be helpful, it should be made clear from the beginning of the book that some of these traits are also ND traits. Gifted ND kids need to get assessed diagnosed so that they get proper support for all the ND traits that their giftedness might be masking, but dismissing any visible ND traits as "overexcitabilities" might delay seeking an assessment until they are burnt out adults..

I find the narration worse than Voiceover is on my phone. I'd rather have a Voiceover compatible pdf.

I'm not going to finish the book and will be returning it for a refund.