The shy employee becomes a tyrant at home. Assagioli on subpersonalities and roles, and the surprising rule: the less you identify with a part, the better you play it. By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archive, Florence.Original title: Subpersonalità Translated by Gordon Symons Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added by the […]
Straight Talk For Adults
Adults perpetuate their own wounds in the children they love. Assagioli on adult understanding of children, Montessori’s call, and the inner work parenting requires. By Roberto AssagioliFour-part series published in Montessori (monthly magazine of the Opera Montessori foundation), 1931-1932.Docs. #23741, #23743, #23744, #23748, #23751, Assagioli Archives, Florence.Original title: Parole Franche Agli Adulti — I-4 [1]Translated […]
The Problem Of Evil
Evil has no separate existence, Assagioli argues. On the problem of evil, the unitary conception that consoles without justifying laxity, and why pain serves the soul. By Roberto Assagioli (under the pseudonym Considerator)Assagioli Archives, Florence. Source: psicoenergetica.com.Original title: Il Problema del MaleTranslated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle […]
“The House of Peace”
A vision for a hilltop retreat in central Italy where people of any faith could seek inner peace. Assagioli’s 1924 vision for the House of Peace. By Roberto AssagioliDoc. #23122, Assagioli Archives, Florence.November 1924.Original title: La Casa di PaceTranslated by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added […]
What Does New Mean?
“New” can mean eight different things, and confusing them leads to throwing out treasures with the trash. Assagioli on the meanings of new and what genuine novelty looks like. By Roberto AssagioliDocs. #23697, #23698, #23699, Assagioli Archives, Florence. [i]Original title: Che Cosa Significa “Nuovo?”Translated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and […]
Psychosomatic Causes and Psychotherapy
Anger that causes strokes, worry that causes atherosclerosis, emotions that change a nursing mother’s milk. Assagioli on the mind body connection and why a psychic wound needs psychic healing. By Roberto AssagioliLesson X of The Energies Latent in Us, March 18, 1934.Doc. #20492, Assagioli Archive, Florence. [i]Original title: L’Azione del Morale sul Fisico e la […]
Good Will To Understand Each Other
What most annoys us in others is often what’s flourishing in us. Assagioli on the good will to understand and the projection trap that keeps us alone. By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archive, Florence. Source: psicoenergetica.com.Original title: Buona Volunta di Comprenderci [i] Translated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm [ii] Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in […]
Spirituality Of The 20th Century
Assagioli reads the spirituality of the 20th century beneath the world wars and the cult of money, and finds the new age its pessimists could not see. By Roberto AssagioliPublished in La Cultura nel Mondo (Bologna), Anno XVIII, No. 6, 1962.Doc. #24024, Assagioli Archives, Florence. [i]Translated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm [ii] Editorial […]
Psychology and Religion (Psychology and Religious Experience)
Most psychology stops where the higher faculties begin. Assagioli on psychology and religion, the spiritual psychology that includes both Self and soul, and the dark-night crises clinicians misread. By Roberto Assagioli, M.D., Director of the Institute of PsychosynthesisDoc. #22057, Assagioli Archive, Florence.Formatted and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm [i] Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual […]
Bio-Psychodynamics and Psychotherapy
Assagioli’s history of the methods of psychotherapy and their importance for the healing of psychological conflicts, ending in the four-stage psychosynthesis he offers as the synthesis of them all. By Dr. Roberto AssagioliPublished in RADIESTESIA, July–September 1950.Doc. #23111, Assagioli Archive, Florence.Original title: Bio-psicodinamica e PsicoterapiaTranslated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract […]
