Assagioli coined the term subpersonalities, drawing on William James’s various selves: subpersonality formation is a normal process built from the social roles and functions we live by. By Kenneth Sørensen, MA2022 The following text is my introduction to the free e-book Subpersonalities , which is a collection of 10 articles by Roberto Assagioli. Abstract In […]
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 Drawing on prison interrogation notes, a 1972 conference of doctors, and an unpublished document on […]
Roberto Assagioli in the Chicago Tribune (1923)
The soul gets sick, not the flesh: a newspaper encounter with psychic diagnosis, the neuro-psycho-spiritual equation, and a Florentine healer likened to St. Francis Article by V. De Santo Published in Chicago Tribune, April 22, 1923 Featuring Roberto Assagioli Original headline: Soul Gets Sick, Not the Body, Says This Specialist Editorial NoteThis text is a […]
Psychosynthesis Versus Psychoanalysis
Honouring the method while refusing the doctrine: Freudian theology names the line where psychoanalysis stops serving growth and starts distorting the whole person By Kenneth Sørensen Abstract In this essay, Kenneth Sørensen examines what psychosynthesis retains from psychoanalysis and what it leaves behind. Drawing on a selection of Assagioli’s own statements, he shows that psychosynthesis […]
Integral Meditation – Your Essence and Your Inner House
Every floor holds its own residents, wounds and gifts: the inner house shows who runs the building, and why the basement keeps sending up the past 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 […]
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and Firman & Gila’s definition of Self-realisation By Kenneth Sorensen, MA – 2020This article is chapter six from my unpublished book: Two Versions of […]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 […]
Roberto Assagioli: Notes and personal memories of Alberto Alberti
Three words dissolved the freedom complex: you are free. Not free because the prison fell, but free because consciousness itself was never behind bars By Alberto Alberti1999Translated by Gordon Symons Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added by the editor, Kenneth Sørensen, to support readability, navigation, and archival consistency. […]
Ian Gordon-Brown about psychosynthesis
The Egg Diagram maps every current of modern psychology into one living whole, placing a Spiritual Centre at the heart where creative energy quietly organises the psyche By June PoseyOriginal title: Ian Gordon-Brown talks to June PoseySource: “Self and Society” – Volume 5 – Number 1 – January 1977Translated from Italian by Gordon Symons Editorial […]
