{"id":22548,"date":"2025-01-21T14:06:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T13:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/?p=22548"},"modified":"2026-05-19T14:06:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:06:52","slug":"meeting-of-doctors-from-perugia-with-dr-r-assagioli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/en\/meeting-of-doctors-from-perugia-with-dr-r-assagioli\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting Of Doctors From Perugia\u00a0With Dr. R. Assagioli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A doctor sits across from a patient and they actually meet. Assagioli’s 1970 conversation on the therapist patient relationship as real human encounter, and on what psychosynthesis offers in therapy, education, and art<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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By Roberto Assagioli, MD<\/strong>
Meeting with doctors from Perugia, March 15, 1970 [1]<\/span><\/span><\/a>
Source: psicoenergetica.com [1]<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span>
Original title: Riunione dei Medici di Perugia con il Dott. R. Assagioli<\/em>
Translated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm [2]<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editorial Note<\/strong>
The abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added by the editor, Kenneth Sorensen, to support readability, navigation, and archival consistency. The original wording has not been altered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Abstract<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In this 1970 meeting with a group of doctors from Perugia, Roberto Assagioli answers practical questions about what psychosynthesis is and how it differs from other approaches to therapy. He frames the psychosynthesis method as a movement from chaos to Cosmos, the slow building of order in a multiplicity of tendencies and energies, grounded in a biopsychospiritual view of the person. He distinguishes psychosynthesis from psychoanalysis through its emphasis on the genuine human relationship between therapist and patient, its integration of many techniques, and its attention to the dynamism of psychic energies. The conversation moves freely across art and its suggestive harm, education, the child’s right to a room where they can throw things and act up, the right way to learn languages, and the difference between internal psychosynthesis for extroverts and external psychosynthesis for introverts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I will touch on two points: what Psychosynthesis is, and what distinguishes it from other methods of psychotherapy. These are the two questions I am generally asked: these, and then the fields in which psychosynthesis operates.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psychosynthesis starts from an undeniable observation \u2014 which anyone can observe in himself with some sincerity \u2014 and it is the one that is set out in the first handout of the first course. . . and it is fundamental:  <\/span><\/span>the multifaceted mind<\/span><\/span><\/em> . In us \u2014 if we observe ourselves \u2014 we detect a multiplicity of tendencies, of thoughts, of feelings and emotions, which are variable and even contradictory \u2014 to the point that sometimes, rather than \u201cmultiplicity\u201d we should speak more precisely of \u201cchaos.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the starting point, and I would say it is existential. And for everyone who sincerely observes himself and also others, this is absolutely undeniable: it is not a doctrine, it is an  <\/span><\/span>observation<\/span><\/span><\/em> . From this comes the need to bring order to chaos, to bring harmony to conflicts; that is, to organize the personality, and I would say that this is the meaning and task of  <\/span><\/span>psychosynthesis<\/span><\/span><\/em> . One could say with a slogan, \u201cfrom chaos to Cosmos,\u201d \u2014  <\/span><\/span>Cosmos <\/span><\/span><\/em> means order, harmony. <\/span><\/span>[3]<\/span><\/span><\/a>  This, I would say, is the backbone: everything else is coordinated with this existential starting observation, and with this goal, at which we never completely arrive, but towards which we aim, and to which we can come very close.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, this is not a static goal \u2014 since the synthesis is not only never perfect, but must be continually renewed and developed, because life is dynamism, it is movement. And so this is also another basic point \u2014 also not theoretical, but also the result of an observation \u2014 that can be translated with the concept of psychodynamics: namely, that psychic life is a dynamism of energies, and that the human being consists of body – psyche – spirit, and is therefore  <\/span><\/span>biopsychospiritual<\/span><\/span><\/em> .<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us now see what differentiates psychosynthesis from other therapies, or psychotherapies. Here, too, the fundamental element lies in the synthetic principle and method: that is, psychosynthesis proposes the synthesis of all valid healing methodologies, first and foremost of the various psychotherapies, but also of other therapies coordinated and integrated into an integral therapy that involves the whole person: body, psyche and spiritual essence. So [we have a] synthesis of therapies: I presented this briefly in a paper addressed to the Psychotherapy Congress in London. <\/span><\/span>[4]<\/span><\/span><\/a>  There are many partially valid psychotherapies [or schools of psychotherapy], but so far each of them generally keeps itself separate from the others, and also they seem to me rather hostile [to one another]. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n