When working with different subpersonalities, it is important to stress the importance of a peaceful co-existence of them, to accept the differences, because each part has its own specific function. Then later comes the process of forming alliances and finally achieving the synthesis. By Roberto Assagioli, July 17, 1972, from the Assagioli Archive in Florence. […]
A Conversation about Subpersonalities with Assagioli
Assagioli cast new light on his understanding of subpersonalities in this dialogue with a student in which he asserts that some subpersonalities stem from our past lives. Translated from Italian by Gordon Symons, Assagioli Archive Florence (original title: Subpersonalita-intuitive-di- B.C.) R.A. :(Referring to the question asked by B.C. about subpersonalities which include feelings of inferiority), […]
Chapter 4 Disidentification – the Way to Freedom
”The conscious and purposeful use of self-identification or disidentification, is basic in Psychosynthesis.” (Assagioli) As mentioned in Chapter I, the aim of disidentification is to stop ourselves from identifying with social roles or certain limiting aspects of our personality. Psychosynthesis is a therapy as well as an individual practice. Our most important tool as therapists […]
Chapter 5 The self – the Way to Presence
”Because a good personal psychosynthesis is all that we can look for in many of our patients the idea which is of capital importance, and around which the entire personal psychosynthesis revolves, is that of a personal self, of a point of consciousness and self-awareness, coupled with its realization and the use of its directing […]
Chapter 6 The Will – the Way to Power
“The will is the central power of our individuality, the innermost essence of our self; therefore, in a certain sense, the discovery of the will means the discovery of our true being” (Assagioli, Undated 12) Assagioli’s third core concept is the will: ”The aspects of the fully developed human will are the strong will, the […]
Chapter 7 The Ideal Model – the Way to Focus
”Individual psychosynthesis can be said to consist essentially in the actualization of one’s own ideal model” (Assagioli, 1974, p. 185) Let’s take a closer look at Assagioli’s fourth core concept, the Ideal Model, which we discussed briefly in Chapter I. Here we will attempt an overview and examine a few practical applications. We may wonder […]
Chapter 8 Synthesis – the Way to Flow
“Possess thyself and Transform thyself. All psychosynthetic techniques have this as their goal” (Assagioli, 1983c) Synthesis is clearly one of the key concepts in Psychosynthesis. We have defined it as a philosophy that sees life as evolving towards unity through the evolution of consciousness. There is an underlying spiritual force behind all that exists, ”uniting […]
Chapter 9 The Superconscious – the Way to Abundance
“What distinguishes Psychosynthesis from many other attempts at psychological understanding is the position that we take as to the existence of a spiritual Self and of a superconscious, which are as basic as the instinctive energies described so well by Freud.” (Assagioli, 1975, p. 193) The Superconscious, or the Higher Unconscious, is Assagioli’s 6th core […]
Chapter 10 The Transpersonal Self – the Way to Love
The Transpersonal Self of each is in intimate union with the Transpersonal Self of all other individuals, however unconscious they may be of this. All Transpersonal Selves can be considered as “points” within the Universal Self. ” (Assagioli, 1974, p. 260) The Transpersonal Self is the last of Assagioli’s seven core concepts; it is also […]
How to work with the conscious “I”, or “observer”, in counselling
In my ongoing reflections on the core concepts of psychosynthesis, we have reached the question of how to work with the conscious “I”, or “observer”, in counselling (see previous post at www.facebook.com/theseventypes/). One of the prominent goals of psychosynthesis counselling is to train the client to lovingly observe the contents of their consciousness and to […]
