Assagioli presents how each of the four types lives in separate worlds and that an understanding of this diversity of experience can foster a deeper understanding. By Roberto Assagioli. It was translated from Italian by Gordon Symons. Original Italian title: I Quattro Tipi Fondamentali E I Loro Sottotipi. [Editors note (KS). This is unfinished notes from […]
How To Develop Your Types
We must accept the types we belong to and learn to express and develop them to their fullest potential. Assagioli hints at the higher and lower expression of each of the four types. By Roberto Assagioli. Original title: The Four Basic Types, 1932. It was translated from Italian by Gordon Symons. Original Italian title: I […]
The Four Psychological Types – Extroversion, Introversion, subversion and Supraversion
Assagioli discusses the four psychological types and their subtypes due to introversion-extroversion, active-passive, subversion-supraversion, degree of maturity and the type of “structure” of the personality. By Roberto Assagioli, (date unknown), translated from Italian by Gordon Symons. Original Italian title: Addendum Ai Tipi Psicologici. From the Assagioli Archive Florence. [Editors note (KS). This is from an […]
Individual And Differential Psychology
Understanding the unique individual is an art form that must apply many different perspectives to capture the many aspects of a human being. The most important is the spiritual Self, the psychological age, the four psychological types based on the four vital centres. By Roberto Assagioli, translated from Italian by Gordon Symons. Original Italian title: […]
Extroverts and Introverts
Roberto Assagioli offers an in-depth presentation of his view on extroverts and introverts, using historical figures to exemplify how we can be extravert on one level and introvert on another. By Roberto Assagioli, Jan. 1931, first published in The Beacon. Original title: Individual psychology and spiritual development, part 4 – Extraverts and Introverts. Today we […]
How to understand people who push your buttons!
Some people push our buttons and we find them difficult to be around. This brief introduction to the theory of the Seven Types will help you to understand how we can develop more empathy for ourselves and others, including ‘difficult’ people. By Kenneth Sørensen and Karianne Stenshagen (This is an edited version of a Facebook […]
Psychosynthesis and the seven types
An interview about how Kenneth Sørensen developed his understanding of psychosynthesis typology and the seven types and applied it in his counselling and business. Amanda Mattiussi interviews Kenneth Sørensen, author of The Seven Types, first published in “Il Sé” magazine, January 2020 How did you first become involved with psychosynthesis? It started in the ‘90s. […]
Unity in Diversity
In order to establish proper relations between human beings and human groups, it is necessary to understand, accept and practice a great principle or truth, which is at the basis of life itself in all its manifestations: that of UNITY IN DIVERSITY.
Empathy: The Heart of the Matter
Empathy is the cornerstone of healthy relationships. It is a quality best understood through the lens of typology or, more specifically, the psychosynthesis model of the Seven Types. Author and psychotherapist Kenneth Sørensen explains. I have been working with people for more than 25 years, first as a pedagogical consultant in social psychiatry, then as […]
The Seven Psychological Functions and The Seven Types
In this article I will describe how the seven psychological functions relate to each other and to the seven energies and types. It is perhaps the most important topic in psychosynthesis typology because it explains how the “underlying functions”, according to Assagioli, create the seven types. The Seven Types and the underlying functions By Kenneth […]
