Integrating Childhood, Adolescence, Youth, Maturity, and Old Age Transcribed lecture conversation with Roberto Assagioli Participants include Prof. Cirenei and others Undated, Assagioli Archives, Florence Original title: Conversazione sulla Psicosintesi della Età Translated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm [1] Editorial Note This text is a transcribed conversation involving Roberto Assagioli and other participants. Assagioli […]
Scientific Method, Psychology, and the Origins of Psychosynthesis
A 1968 newspaper interview where Assagioli, eighty years old, walks a journalist through the origins of psychosynthesis, his fascist-era exile, the limits of scientific quantification, and why he refuses to be called a wise man. Conversation with Roberto AssagioliInterview conducted by Mariella Crocellà [i]Published in La Nazione, February 21, 1968Assagioli Archives, Doc. #23493Translated and edited […]
Psychosynthesis, Religion, and Psychotherapy
Assagioli on the meeting of psychotherapy and religion: how to speak each person’s spiritual language without imposing your own, the proper boundary between psychology and theology, and when spiritual material belongs in the therapy room. Lecture discussion led by Roberto AssagioliDoc. #23488, Assagioli Archive, Florence.Original title: Discussione [i]Translated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm […]
Interview with Roberto Assagioli by Michael Murphy, 1971
A rare Roberto Assagioli interview from 1971, recorded three years before his death. At eighty-three, he traces how psychosynthesis came to be, in his own voice. Interview with Roberto AssagioliConducted by Stuart Miller and Michael Murphy [i] May 1971Assagioli Archives, FlorenceFormatted and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm [ii] Editorial Note This text is a […]
Roberto Assagioli and Psychosynthesis (Interview by Stuart Miller)
Psychosynthesis is not control but freedom: the harmonization of personality around a Self that can conduct its many parts like an orchestra, instead of being driven by them. By Roberto Assagioli, interviewed by Stuart MillerPublished in Popular Psychology, 1972Assagioli Archives, Florence, Doc. #24343 Editorial NoteThe Assagioli Archives date this interview to 1972, supported by the […]
Old Age, Death, and the Perenniality of Life
I Take Advantage of Deafness, for It Spares Me Much Nonsense: The Perenniality of Life as a Fearless Answer to Old Age and Death Interview with Roberto AssagioliConducted by Solange de Marignac, January 1970Assagioli Archives, FlorenceOriginal title: Vecchiaia e MorteTranslated from Italian by Jan Kuniholm and Francesco ViglienghiTranslation from French revised by Roberto Assagioli Editorial […]
Psychosynthesis in Medicine and Society
There Are Sewers, Cellars, and Upper Floors, but Never Put a Roof on the Building: Inter-Individual Psychosynthesis as Gradual Harmonisation of Couples, Groups, and Nations Conference proceedings with an introduction by Roberto AssagioliWith contributions from multiple physicians and participants Florence, November 4–5, 1972 Original title: Convegno dei MediciAssagioli Archives – Florence Translated from Italian by […]
Roberto Assagioli in the Chicago Tribune (1923)
A Newspaper Portrait of Early Psychosynthesis and “Soul Medicine”
A Conversation about Subpersonalities
Child, partner, professional: subpersonalities and roles are the shape a life takes, not masks worn over a truer self, and Assagioli traces some of them to earlier incarnations. By Roberto AssagioliOriginal title: Subpersonalita-intuitive-di-BCAssagioli Archive FlorenceTranslated from Italian by Gordon Symon Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added by the […]
Dr. Assagioli’s Last Teaching Session
A Pedagogical Exchange on the Effects of Psychosynthesis Practice









