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 […]
Archives for March 2026
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 […]
The Psychosynthesis Research Foundation – Its Vision, Mission, and Program
Before the foundation legally existed, its founders wrote down what they hoped for. This psychosynthesis research program named the superconscious, the will, gifted children, and the training of practitioners. By Roberto Assagioli and Co-WorkersWritten circa April 1957 (Derived from AAP Archive, Folder PRF_AAP_Correspondences, 1957) Preliminary Vision Statement Prior to Legal Incorporation (November 1957) Editorial NoteThe […]
The Practical and Human Value of Psychic Culture
How a 1929 pamphlet on psychic culture mapped the practical, therapeutic, and social dimensions of conscious inner development, foreshadowing the full programme of psychosynthesis By Dr. Roberto AssagioliDirector of the Institute of Psychic Culture and Therapy Doc. #23914–23915 | Assagioli Archives, FlorenceOriginal title: Il valore pratico ed umano della cultura psichicaPublished as a pamphlet in […]
The Internationale of the Spirit
Why a post-war essay prescribed moral regeneration as the remedy for chauvinistic nationalism, envisioning each homeland’s distinct mission within a brotherhood of peoples By Roberto Assagioli1922Doc. #23492 | Assagioli Archives, FlorenceOriginal title: L’Internationale dello SpiritoTranslated and Edited With Notes by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added […]
The Effects of Laughter and Its Pedagogical Applications
How an eighteen-year-old Assagioli mapped the intellectual, moral, and pedagogical effects of laughter, linking comic detachment to the serene perspective of wisdom By Roberto Grego AssagioliDoc. #23288–23289 | Assagioli Archives, FlorenceOriginal title: Gli effetti del riso e le loro applicazioni pedagogicheJournal of Psychology Applied to Pedagogy and Psychopathology, Florence, March–April 1906Translated and Edited With Notes […]
How to Decide? Guidance from the Self
How a practical psychosynthetic exercise employs imaginative personification to bypass conscious resistance, opening a channel between the personal self and spiritual guidance By Roberto AssagioliDoc. #14375 | Assagioli Archives, FlorenceOriginal title: Come Decidere?Translated by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added by the editor, Kenneth Sørensen, to […]
