{"id":14590,"date":"2020-08-24T14:10:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T13:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/?p=14590"},"modified":"2026-01-18T18:33:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:33:20","slug":"ian-gordon-brown-about-psychosynthesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/en\/ian-gordon-brown-about-psychosynthesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Gordon-Brown about psychosynthesis"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Ian Gordon-Brown, a long time friend of Assagioli, speaks about the core elements of psychosynthesis and what he considers to be the most valuable aspect of psychosynthesis<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Original title:<\/span><\/span><\/em> Ian Gordon-Brown talks to June Posey, translated from Italian by Gordon Symons. Author June Posey<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Ian works at the Center for Transpersonal Psychology. He knew Roberto Assagioli from 1949, and shared an interest with him in spiritual growth processes, a love of mysticism, and both eastern and western philosophy. We shall deal with the transpersonal perspective in psychology in a later issue. But Ian includes psychosynthesis ideas and techniques in his work, and believes that the contribution of Psychosynthesis to the development of a new age psychology will become increasingly important in the future. Ian met Assagioli periodically down the years, and an interview with him belongs in this issue.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Ian Gordon-Brown 1925-1996. Ian was an Industrial Psychologist, educated at Bryanston and Cambridge. In 1973, he and Barbara Somers founded the Center for Transpersonal Psychology.<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

What do you feel is the most important contribution of Psychosynthesis?<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I wish Roberto had written more. He is underestimated because he put so little down on paper, but I think he will be remembered long after many of the current and more popular figures have been forgotten. For me the affirmation of a Spiritual Center in the human being, as an existential and experiential reality, is his primary contribution. I know it is commonplace for many to accept this today, but Assagioli started saying so sixty years ago. What is more, he shows how this Center actually works as a creative operational energy within the psyche. I also greatly value his emphasis on synthesis. He did not reject analysis, either as a technique or approach, but placed it in a larger perspective. If he had done no more than coin and popularize the concept of psychosynthesis, his contribution would have been significant.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n