{"id":13584,"date":"2020-01-29T12:09:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T11:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/?p=13584"},"modified":"2026-01-18T19:22:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:22:59","slug":"psychosynthesis-and-the-seven-types","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/en\/psychosynthesis-and-the-seven-types\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychosynthesis and the seven types"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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<\/strong>An interview about how Kenneth S\u00f8rensen developed his understanding of psychosynthesis typology and the seven types and applied it in his counseling and business.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Amanda Mattiussi interviews Kenneth S\u00f8rensen, author of <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>The Seven Types, first published in<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em> \u00a0” <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Il S\u00e9” magazine <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>, January 2020<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

How did you first become involved with psychosynthesis?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

It started in the ’90s. I was very involved with theosophy as a teacher and an author \u2013 I wrote a couple of books and I taught esoteric philosophy. I think it was in 1997 when I read The Act of Will by Roberto Assagioli and I was so fascinated by his detailed presentation of the different aspects, stages and qualities of the will. This was my first encounter with psychosynthesis, but it took a couple more years before I decided to go deeper into it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Around 2001, I got very frustrated with the theosophical environment and myself: we were so much up in our heads and we couldn’t practice what we taught. I had a big crisis and I had to work with myself in psychotherapy. Up to that point, I was very devoted to theosophy \u2013 I identified with it, you might say \u2013 I was a kind of a missionary for esoterism and way too fanatical about my ideas. I experienced a breakdown of my devotional persona because I realized there was too wide a gap between my ideals and my practical life. I disengaged from the theosophical group, even though I still valued many of the ideas. Today, I no longer identify with any particular philosophy because such an identification ends up being a prison, and we often become ideologically possessed by our ideas.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In 2002, you started training in psychosynthesis. I found a good school in Sweeden \u2013 I was living in Copenhagen, so it was a short trip. Then I transferred to the Norwegian Institute of Psychosynthesis in 2003 and finished my four-year training as a psychotherapist there. Finally, I went to London, where I wrote my Masters thesis in Integral Psychosynthesis. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> So it was a long journey, with psychotherapy and clients, and my career changed entirely. I stopped working as a social consultant in social psychiatry \u2013 which I had been doing for ten years, working with people with mental illness \u2013 and I started to build my own business.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Transferring to psychosynthesis made it possible to work at a more intimate and personal level, helping people to transform their personality, and psychosynthesis gave me the psychological and philosophical concepts on which I based my teaching and counseling practice. I designed several personal growth modalities based on psychosynthesis, eg a one-year training program in meditation, a program looking at the Seven Types, and a program looking at Soul Flow.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Psychosynthesis became my primary perspective and methodology, and I used it to make a deep transformation of my personality. I have not found any better psychology. I just felt a deep resonance with psychosynthesis, it was like coming home.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n