Transforming attachment into freedom: Assagioli’s four methods of detachment and the heavy weights that bind the soul By Dr. Roberto AssagioliMeeting III of La Psicosintesi Spirituale, March 19, 1938Assagioli Archives, Florence, Doc. #23760Original title: La Psicosintesi Spirituale, Meeting III — 1. Gli Ostacoli Emotivi — 2. Gli AttaccamentiTranslated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm […]
Archives for January 2025
From Psychoanalysis to Psychosynthesis
Assagioli’s foundational essay on how psychosynthesis includes and goes beyond psychoanalysis, from the superconscious to inter-individual synthesis By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archives, Florence [i]Original title: La PsicosintesiTranslated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm [ii] Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added by the editor, Kenneth Sørensen, to support readability, […]
Psychosynthetic Summer Program
Assagioli’s psychosynthetic summer program: rest as an art, communion with nature, internal inventory, and the right use of vacation for inner work By Roberto AssagioliUnfinished, unrevised notesAssagioli Archives, Florence, Doc. #23141 [i]Original title: Programma Psicosintetico per l’EstateTranslated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm [ii] Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition […]
Religions, New Times And Young People
Assagioli’s 1948 paper on religious renewal, the irruption of the new spirit, and the call to young people to build a new world By Roberto AssagioliPaper given at the First Congress for Religious Reform, Rome, October 13–15, 1948Republished with slight modifications in 1965 and 1970Assagioli Archives, Florence, Doc. #23692 [i]Original title: Le Religioni, I Nuovi […]
Conversation About the Self and The Superconscious
Alongside the search for the Self — Assagioli on the Superconscious as a region of life already available, and the seven paths that lead there By Roberto AssagioliA brief conversation held on January 28, 1968Assagioli Archives, Florence [i]Translated and edited by Jan Kuniholm [ii] Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have […]
The Errors of Scientists
Assagioli at twenty-five — a psychologist’s taxonomy of the errors of scientists, from experimental tautologies to the magic word that explains too much By Roberto AssagioliPublished in Psyche – Journal of Psychological Studies, Year II, No. 4, July–August 1913Assagioli Archives, Florence, Docs. #23323 and #22324Original title: Gli Errori Degli Scienziati [i]Translated and edited with notes […]
Notes From A Conversation With Dr. Assagioli
A 1955 conversation on consciousness beyond the body: Assagioli on telepathy, survival after death, and the inner attitude of listening for the spirit By Roberto AssagioliA typed transcript dated February 23, 1955Assagioli Archives, Florence, Doc. #17888Translated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been […]
Ordered Life
Assagioli’s outline for an ordered life — a comprehensive program across body, emotion, mind, will, and human relationships, with rhythms keyed to the day, the month, and the year By Roberto AssagioliFrom Psychosynthesis in ActionAssagioli Archives, Florence, Docs. #23920 and #23921 [i]Translated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm [ii] Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual […]
Psycho-Sexual Polarities
Sergio Bartoli’s 1971 lecture proposing psychosexual polarity as a framework for understanding the dynamics of male and female across physical, emotional, intellectual, and intuitive levels of human life By Dr. Sergio Bartoli [i]Course of Lectures on Psychosynthesis, Lecture VIII, 1971Translated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm [ii] Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in […]
Politics and Psychology, The Ways of Reconstruction – 1944
Assagioli’s wartime essay on nations as living organisms, the soul of each people, and the work of national psychosynthesis as the foundation of stable peace By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archives, Florence, Doc. #24233Original title: Politica e Psicologia – Le Vie della Ricostruzione – 1944Translated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm [i] Editorial NoteThe abstract and […]
