Roberto Assagioli was the first to coin the term subpersonalities, however, he was inspired by William James’s concept of various selves and sees subpersonalities primarily as normal psychological formations based on our social roles and functions. By Kenneth Sørensen, MA2022 The following text is my introduction to the free e-book Subpersonalities , which is a […]
Was Assagioli A Pacifist?
He Carved a Pistol Out of Soap and Painted It Black: Psychological Pacifism Rejected in Favour of Transmuting the Fighting Instinct By Kenneth Sorensen, MA2022 Abstract In this essay, Kenneth Sørensen investigates whether Assagioli can rightly be called a pacifist. Drawing on prison interrogation notes, a 1972 conference of doctors, and an unpublished document on […]
The Seven Types – Introduction
Since the English translation of Roberto Assagioli’s Psychosynthesis
Typology in 19831 , there have been only two significant publications
from within the psychosynthesis community that have dealt seriously
with the theory of the Seven Types.
Roberto Assagioli in the Chicago Tribune (1923)
A Newspaper Portrait of Early Psychosynthesis and “Soul Medicine”
Psychosynthesis Versus Psychoanalysis
“There is no opposition between Psychoanalysis and Psychosynthesis if we refer to Freudian Psychoanalysis understood as the technique of exploration of the unconscious and not to the set of psychoanalytic doctrines, that is to ‘Freudian theology’.” Roberto Assagioli (1) By Kenneth Sørensen We know that psychosynthesis grew out of psychoanalysis, beginning with the work of […]
Integral Meditation – Chapter 2
Your Essence and Your Inner House By Kenneth Sørensen, MA2017Integral Meditation — The Seven Ways to Self-Realisation, 2017, Chapter 2 Abstract In this chapter, Sørensen maps the inner house through Assagioli’s egg diagram, a model of four interconnected levels: the basic unconscious, where survival needs and early trauma reside; the middle unconscious, home to self-image, […]
What is Self-Realization?
Confronto tra le definizioni di realizzazione del Sé date da Assagioli e da Firman&Gila Di Kenneth Sorensen. Questo articolo è il sesto capitolo del mio libro inedito: Two Versions of Psychosynthesis: A Comparison of Assagioli and Firman and Gila, che sarà pubblicato 2021. INTRODUZIONE Sono passati 25 anni da quando John Firman pubblicò il suo […]
What Is Self-Realization? Firman vs Assagioli
Two versions of psychosynthesis offer two different roads: Self-realisation is either the unification of personal and Transpersonal Self or merely a relationship that never closes the gap A Comparison of Assagioli’s and Firman & Gila’s definition of Self-realisation By Kenneth Sorensen, MA – 2020This article is chapter six from my unpublished book: Two Versions of […]
What is psychosynthesis?
Five letters spell what the soul is doing: the unifying centre draws every warring voice into one still awareness where conflict, love and purpose finally breathe as one By Kenneth Sorensen2020 Abstract In this essay, Kenneth Sørensen distils psychosynthesis into a five-letter acronym, CAARE: Conflict, Awareness, Acceptance, Responsibility, Evolution. Each letter maps a stage in […]
Diana Becchetti talks to June Posey
Self infusion closes the distance between soul and personality so that spiritual knowing no longer hovers above life but moves through the body, the breath and the ordinary moment By June PoseySource: Self and Society, Vol. 5, No. 1, January 1977Translated from Italian by Gordon Symons Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online […]
