“…Further, former GSE and TSE students did not differ substantively in the degree and nature of overexcitability, which constitutes an essential element of an individual's potential to arrive at high levels of personality development, according to the TPD. Overexcitability increases the possibility of inner mental transformation, which paves the way for achieving higher levels of human functioning, as characterized by autonomy, authenticity, and empathy, and consequently, according to Dabrowski, mental health (Dabrowski, 2015;Dabrowski and Joshi, 1972).…”