Some Basic Principles Of Theory And Practice What We Repress Is Not Only the Dark but Also the Light: The Psychosynthetic Process from Inner Division to Living Wholeness By Roberto Assagioli, MDFrom the Assagioli Archive in FlorenceOriginal title: Che cos’è la psicosintesi? Alcuni fundamentali principi di teoria e prassiLecture given at the Futurology Biennial, Crans, […]
Why You Are Not Your Body
I Am Not My Body, Said Assagioli, and His Critics Never Forgave Him: The Contentless Self as the Pivot of Disidentification By Kenneth Sørensen, MA in Psychosynthesis Author of The Soul of Psychosynthesis (revised March 2023 – see update notes at the end) Abstract In this essay, Kenneth Sørensen examines why Roberto Assagioli insisted on […]
Subpersonalities
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 Drawing on prison interrogation notes, a 1972 conference of doctors, and an unpublished document on […]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 Journey of Psychosynthesis
Forty years at the door of a house in Belsize Park: bifocal vision and the alchemist’s art of holding both the wound and the emerging whole in one gaze By Will ParfittFirst published in: Thresholds, BACP, Winter 2011 Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added by the editor, Kenneth Sørensen, […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Seven Psychological Functions and The Seven Types
Will, feeling, thought, imagination, logic, passion, action. The Star Diagram gives each of the seven a higher form the personality rarely notices, and asks how far yours has grown. By Kenneth Sørensen2020The Seven Types — Psychosynthesis Typology and Its Applications, 2019, Chapter 3 The Seven Types, Psychosynthesis Typology . Download the chapter as a pdf […]
The Seven Core Concepts of Psychosynthesis
From a landmark congress in Taormina, the seven core concepts unfold as lived therapeutic practices bridging Eastern contemplation and Western counselling into a unified psychology By Kenneth Sørensen2019International Congress of Psychosynthesis, Taormina, June 2016You can also listen to the lecture here: Seven Core Concepts of Psychosynthesis Abstract In this lecture, Kenneth Sørensen explores the seven […]
