You cannot avoid pain, only choose its kind. The pain of growth or the pain of stagnation, and the difference between symptoms that go forward and symptoms that go back. By Kenneth Sørensen, MA, Psychosynthesis Psychotherapist and Researcher. Published August 2026. (This article is based on the e-book Conflict, Crises and Synthesis, a compilation of […]
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Transpersonal Psychology in the Consulting Room
In a public clinic the word itself can be risky. Two practitioners talk about holding a transpersonal framework in the room, and about the moment the joy collapses. By Kenneth Sørensen and Anja Bjørlo2026 Editorial NoteThis article is based on a conversation between Kenneth Sørensen and Anja Bjørlo on Psychosynthesis, Meaning, and the Soul’s Emergence; […]
Synthesis in Psychosynthesis: Assagioli’s Unified Teaching
Synthesis in psychosynthesis runs from the atom to the Supreme Synthesis. This article gathers the whole of Assagioli’s teaching on it, including archive pages never brought together before. By Kenneth Sørensen, MA Psychosynthesis 2026 Editorial NoteResearch and drafting assistance provided by Claude (Anthropic). All archival sources, citations, interpretations, and the final text are the author’s […]
Facilitating Depth through Psychosynthesis
Two clients, two outcomes. This keynote on psychosynthesis coaching sets surface identity against the contentless witness, and asks the question that separates them: who is speaking? By Kenneth Sørensen, MAKeynote address delivered at the Sixth Psychosynthesis Coaching Symposium, NCVO, London, 10 April 2026 Editorial NoteThis article has been adapted from a recorded keynote address. An […]
Roberto Assagioli on Parapsychology
Higher octave is how Assagioli explained telepathy and precognition: not anomalies but the ordinary senses running further up the scale, with dangers he took seriously. By Kenneth Sørensen, MA 2026 Abstract In this introduction, the archive of Assagioli’s writing on the parapsychological faculties is set out, with an account of why it belongs inside a […]
My Association with the Psychosynthesis Research Foundation and Its Pioneers
An article handed to him in 1963 sent a psychiatrist to the Psychosynthesis Research Foundation, where he found Swartley, Hilton and Cooper, and ten years later, Assagioli himself. By John H. Parks, MDAAP Psychosynthesis Quarterly, March 2018 Editorial NoteThe abstract, contextual subtitle, and cross-sections in this online edition have been added by the editor, Kenneth […]
Short History of Psychosynthesis
The history of psychosynthesis told from inside the office that ran it: courses, congresses, a discarded motto, and the point where it declared itself a constellation rather than a school. By Ida PalombiWritten circa 1974 by Ida Palombi, secretary of the Istituto di Psicosintesi, FlorenceTranslated by Jan Kuniholm (reformatted and copyedited) [1] Editorial NoteThe abstract, […]
Guiding Principles and Results of Psychosynthetic Therapy
Seven criteria of psychosynthetic therapy, set down in a lecture manuscript: the body counted in, energy put to work, the superconscious invited, and often the patient trained out of therapy. By Roberto AssagioliDocs. #23763, #23764, #23765 | Archive: Assagioli Archive, FlorenceOriginal title: Principi informatori e risultati della terapia psicosinteticaLecture manuscript, (post-1966)Translated and edited with notes […]
Psychotherapeutic Methods
A breakdown can be the pressure of something trying to wake up. In this interview Assagioli names his integral method: uncover, rebuild, then open to energies from above. By Roberto AssagioliDoc. #236936 | Archive: Assagioli Archive, FlorenceInterview in the Italian magazine Ultra, 1923Translated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual […]
The Universal Messianic Expectancy
Across Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the same messianic expectancy keeps returning. This address traces the pattern, and asks what active preparation the waiting is supposed to involve. By Roberto AssagioliAddress delivered in Rome and read in Venice, Florence and Bologna, June 1952, also given in German in Zurich, September 1952Published in: The Beacon, April […]
