{"id":29535,"date":"2026-03-26T09:39:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/?p=29535"},"modified":"2026-09-07T12:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:44:20","slug":"psychosynthesis-research-foundation-mission-1957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/en\/psychosynthesis-research-foundation-mission-1957\/","title":{"rendered":"The Psychosynthesis Research Foundation \u2013 Its Vision, Mission, and Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 id=\"h-before-the-foundation-legally-existed-its-founders-wrote-down-what-they-hoped-for-this-psychosynthesis-research-program-named-the-superconscious-the-will-gifted-children-and-the-training-of-practitioners\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Before the foundation legally existed, its founders wrote down what they hoped for. This psychosynthesis research program named the superconscious, the will, gifted children, and the training of practitioners.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The-Psychosynthesis-Research-Foundation-assagioli_1200x675.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The-Psychosynthesis-Research-Foundation-assagioli_1200x675-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Founding Vision and Strategic Program of the PRF (1957)\" class=\"wp-image-29536\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.776;width:888px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The-Psychosynthesis-Research-Foundation-assagioli_1200x675-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The-Psychosynthesis-Research-Foundation-assagioli_1200x675-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The-Psychosynthesis-Research-Foundation-assagioli_1200x675-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The-Psychosynthesis-Research-Foundation-assagioli_1200x675-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The-Psychosynthesis-Research-Foundation-assagioli_1200x675-419x236.jpg 419w, https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The-Psychosynthesis-Research-Foundation-assagioli_1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <strong><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Roberto Assagioli and Co-Workers<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><br><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Written circa April 1957 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">(Derived from AAP Archive, Folder PRF_AAP_Correspondences, 1957) <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Preliminary Vision Statement Prior to Legal Incorporation (November 1957)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Editorial Note<\/strong><br>The abstract and contextual subtitle,  in this online edition have been added by the editor, Kenneth S\u00f8rensen, for clarity and navigational purposes. They were not part of the original 1957 document, and the historical text has not been modified. The document was written in 1957 and reflects perspectives of its time, including statistics on mental health quoted from the press of that year and the generic masculine used throughout for the human being, framings that contemporary psychosynthesis and related fields have continued to develop and refine. It is presented here as historical material supporting the study of the tradition&#8217;s line of thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this founding document, Assagioli and his co-workers set out why a psychosynthesis research foundation was needed and what it would do. They read the rapid increase in psychological disturbance around them as a problem of inner division, and fault academic psychology and psychoanalysis alike for dwelling on the lower functions while fitting people to a pattern of normalcy. Against that they propose synthesis on three levels: among the schools of psychology, between psychology and philosophy and religion, and among techniques gathered into a plan for each individual. The program that follows covers the superconscious, the will, human types, gifted children, psychotherapy, human relations, and the training of practitioners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The present world crisis, which affects all aspects of the individual and of society, is producing a considerable and rapid increase of nervous, psychological and mental disturbances. These, in their turn, constitute the chief causes of suicides, of crime (particularly juvenile delinquency), of addiction to narcotics and to alcohol. The amount and the intensity of the suffering produced by these ills, which affect the whole human being, are incalculable. The effect on other human beings, from the family to the whole social fabric, in the form of &#8220;psychological infection&#8221; \u2014 unhappiness, waste of energies, expenditure of time and money \u2014 are most serious and alarming.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">&#8220;It has been estimated that (in the USA) around 300,000 more (mental) patients urgently need hospitalization but do not get it; problem drinking affects some 3.8 million Americans&#8230;. The more conservative psychoanalysts maintain that about a third of all adults are neurotic.&#8221; <\/span><\/span><\/span><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">(&#8220;LIFE&#8221; magazine, January 7, 1957, p.74)<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br>\n<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The causes of this situation are various, but it has been ascertained that by far the most important are of a psychological nature. Modern man is &#8220;a house divided unto itself&#8221;; he is the battleground of many and acute conflicts between the various parts of his own nature, between himself and <\/span><\/span><\/span><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">society. The crying need for help and also the natural development of scientific investigation have caused the rapid appearance of a new science \u2014 <\/span><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">psychology<\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> .<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br>\n<\/span><i><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">As Professor Overstreet has tersely stated: &#8220;There is, in short, a time clock of science. Each science has to wait until its hour strikes. Today, at last, the time clock of science strikes the hour of psychology; and a new enlightenment begins.&#8221; ( <\/span><\/span><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The Mature Mind,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> p.14, Publ. New York, <\/span><\/span><\/span><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Norton)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The growth of psychology and the extension of its applications in the fields of medicine and of education and in many other departments of life has been phenomenal \u2014 but it has been tumultuous, disordered and uneven. Not only is it one-sided and faulty in certain directions, but it has of itself raised problems and has even created dangers and, in certain cases, has produced real harm. The existence of many different and conflicting schools of psychology, some of which have extreme views, has been confusing and bewildering. Its chief liability and danger lies in the fact that both academic psychology and psychoanalysis have put the main emphasis on the elementary functions and on the lower aspects of the human being, and in the tendency to fit all individuals into a pattern of &#8220;normalcy&#8221; and &#8220;adjustment&#8221; while, in general, they neglect, and in some cases even deny, the higher aspects and possibilities of the human being.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">This fact is due mainly to a materialistic and positivistic outlook, to the application of the methods employed in the physical sciences to psychology, and to an excess of analysis and specialized research. There is therefore an urgent need for a balancing and integrating <\/span><\/span><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">synthesis<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> .<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Synthesis<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> can be applied in three main ways:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The synthesis of the various psychological schools, resulting in <\/span><\/span><\/span><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">a synthetic conception of the human being.<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br><br><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The synthesis of psychology with other branches of human knowledge and life: Philosophy, religion, and the social sciences, etc., thus including the <\/span><\/span><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">whole<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> of man.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The synthesis of the various techniques employed in psychotherapy and in education, according to a definite psychosynthetic plan for each individual.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">This trend towards synthesis is not lacking; it can be noticed in some of the best psychologists, philosophers, and educators. There is also an increasing trend towards cooperation between religion and psychology. Clergymen and rabbis are cooperating with psychologists and psychiatrists. And there has been and there is a school of psychology and a method of psychotherapy and education which, for more than thirty years, has proclaimed and applied the principle and method of synthesis, as indicated by its very name: <\/span><\/span><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">psychosynthesis<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> . A short outline of psychosynthesis is given in the appendix.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Its chief <\/span><\/span><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">specific<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> contributions are:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The study of the superconscious, the activation of its faculties and energies, and their harmonious integration in, and utilization by, the conscious personality. This includes the study of genius; the discovery and development of special talents; the study and development of the <\/span><\/span><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">will<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> (a precious human function which has been curiously neglected by psychology, by psychotherapy, and, to some extent, by education); the establishment of a harmonious integration of all human aspects: biological, emotional, mental, and spiritual, under the direction of the Self; the study and development of right interrelations and interplay between individuals and between the individual and the various groups with which he is affiliated; the creation, experiment, and use of specific techniques for those purposes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Psychosynthesis has been elaborated in the years since 1910. It was first presented to the public by the Institute of Psychosynthesis, which functioned actively in Rome from 1926 to 1938. After the war, in 1948, it resumed its activities in Florence. A pamphlet <\/span><\/span><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">entitled A New Method of Healing \u2014 Psychosynthesis<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> appeared in 1927; many articles and studies have since been published in various languages, and courses of lectures have been delivered in different countries, including the USA, England (at various colleges, organized by Prof. Lauwerys of the University of London) and in Bintch and Geneva (at the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de Philosophie), etc.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The very favorable and gratifying results yielded by psychosynthesis; and the increasing and urgent need for adequate help utilizing the enormous resources of talent and of the higher possibilities latent in human beings \u2014 all point to the usefulness, one might say the <\/span><\/span><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">necessity<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> of a greater development, a wider extension, and a more intensive application of <\/span><\/span><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">psychosynthesis<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> .<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">These are the incentives and the purposes which have urged us to propose the creation of an international Institute of Psychosynthesis with its Headquarters in the United States.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Psychosynthesis has as yet by no means achieved adequate development, and there is ample scope and, indeed, a pressing need for both scientific and practical research. To mention only a few of the many possible fields for investigation research projects could profitably be started on:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The investigation and use of the higher and psychological functions and activities, such as the intuition, inspiration, mental and artistic creativity. More specifically, the study of gifted children and of individuals of genius; their early recognition; the development and application of methods of education and of training suited to them.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The nature of the <\/span><\/span><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">will<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> ; its relation to the other psychological functions; the techniques for its safe development and use.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Human types, their classification and description. Methods of psychosynthetic education and treatment suited to each.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><b>\u00a0<\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Education.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> The development and use of psychosynthetic educational techniques; their application in the family, in schools, in adult education. A special project has been outlined of a School for Gifted Children, and for adolescents, with the purpose of discovering and training them to become future executives and leaders in all departments of human life.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Psychotherap<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> y <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">. Development and use of the special psychosynthetic techniques and their integration with the other existing techniques in an inclusive plan of treatment for each patient.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Human Relations<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> . The nature, varieties, and techniques of inter-individual psychosynthesis. The integration of a married couple &#8211; of the family group &#8211; of various communities &#8211; of national groups &#8211; and, finally, the psychosynthesis of humanity.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Special emphasis will be given to the <\/span><\/span><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">training of experts<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> in the various fields: Educators, Psychologists, Medical Doctors, Nurses, and Social Workers.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The best means of training is through individual &#8220;didactic psychosynthesis&#8221;. When this is not possible, other methods will be used, such as Courses of Lectures, Camps, directed individual and group applications, use of a specialized library, etc.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Through the publication of pamphlets, a bulletin or periodical, and of books on psychosynthesis.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Through lectures in various cities and countries.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Through the establishment of branches of the Institute in various places, the first one being the existing Institute of Psychosynthesis in Florence, Italy.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">To incorporate the Institute of Psychosynthesis as a non-profit corporation in the State of Delaware, USA, to have a corporate body able to receive funds and so that donations made to its support would be tax exempt.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The Institute so organized could then accept the gift of the house and estate offered by AB. This will give the Institute a &#8220;home&#8221; or working center. The basic maintenance costs (such as real estate taxes, light, heat, and caretaker, etc.) have been guaranteed for two years. The cost of salaries for staff would have to be obtained by donations from interested people. Dr. Assagioli would not require a salary for his services \u2014 at least for the initial three years of operation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The founding members of the Institute are to elect a representative Board of directors or trustees who would have responsibility for the Institute&#8217;s programs. From their ranks, the directors would elect the officers; say, two of the officers could take up residence at the Institute&#8217;s headquarters and initiate the actual program of the Institute. Presumably, these two would be Dr. Assagioli and another American doctor, so that there would always be one of them on the premises for interviews and maintenance of day-to-day working.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">(a.) First steps in initiating the Institute&#8217;s work would presumably be the sending out of letters from the Institute headquarters to doctors and educationists, outlining the objectives and plans. (b.)<\/span><\/span><\/span><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> Arrange a series of lectures by Dr. Assagioli in principal cities. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">(c.)<\/span><\/span><\/span><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> Invite other doctors and educationists to the Institute for consultations and discussions to evolve a system of seminars and a method of coordinating the experience of doctors who are utilizing psychosynthesis (or similar) techniques. To explore with educationists the possibilities of presenting the techniques of psychosynthesis to schools and colleges<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">To approach those who know of, and are interested in, Dr. Assagioli&#8217;s work in psychosynthesis, and invite their financial support of the Institute. Later, prepare material for use in soliciting funds from a wider field \u2014 such as philanthropic trusts, etc.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Psychosynthesis should not be looked upon as a particular psychological doctrine, nor as a single technical procedure.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">It is first and foremost a dynamic, even a dramatic conception of our psychological life, which it portrays as a constant interplay and conflict between the many different and contrasting forces, and a unifying center which ever tends to control, harmonize and utilize them.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Psychosynthesis is, moreover, a combination of several methods of inner action, aiming first at the development and perfection of the personality &#8211; and then at its harmonious coordination and increasing unification with the spiritual Self. These phases may be called respectively &#8220;personal&#8221; and &#8220;spiritual&#8221; psychosynthesis. According to the various fields of activity in which it is used, and the different purposes which it can serve, psychosynthesis is, or may become:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">A method of psychological and spiritual self-development<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> for those who refuse to remain any longer the slaves of their own inner phantasm or of external influences, and those who refuse to submit passively to the play of the psychological force, which is going on within them, and are determined to become the king of their realm.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">A method of cure for nervous diseases and psychological disturbances<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> which becomes necessary when the cause of the trouble is a violent and complicated conflict between groups of conscious and unconscious forces, or when it is due to those deep-seated and tormenting crises (not generally understood or rightly judged by the patient himself) which often precede a phase of spiritual development.<\/span><\/span><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br><br><\/span><\/i><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">A method of integral education<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> which tends not only to favor the development of the various faculties of the child or the adolescent, but helps him to discover and realize his true nature, and to develop under its guidance a harmonious, radiant and efficient personality.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Psychosynthesis may also be considered as the individual expression of a wider principle, of a general law of inter-individual and cosmic synthesis. Indeed, the isolated individual does not exist; every person has intimate relationships with other individuals which make all individuals interdependent. Moreover, each and all are subordinate to the spiritual super-individual Reality.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"h-biographical-notes-on-robert-assagioli-md\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON ROBERT ASSAGIOLI, MD<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Dr. Robert Assagioli was born in Venice, Italy, in 1888. He took his medical degree at the University of Florence, specializing in neurology and psychiatry, but pursuing at the same time psychological <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">and philosophical studies.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br>\n<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">He became an active member of young philosophers, artists and literary men who published the vanguard review, &#8220;Leonardo&#8221;. Later, he was the editor of the scientific periodical, &#8220;Psyche&#8221;.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">After practicing various methods of psychotherapy \u2014 such as suggestion, persuasion and psychoanalysis \u2014 he evolved a new and comprehensive method, aiming at a complete reconstruction of the personality, called psychosynthesis, which he applies not only to <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">patients, but also uses and teaches as a method of education and self-education. In 1926 he founded the &#8221; <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Institute of Psychosynthesis<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> &#8221; in Rome.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br>\n<\/span><i><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">After 1938 Dr. Assagioli&#8217;s work in Rome became increasingly difficult, because his humanitarian and international activities aroused more and more hostility from the Fascist government, and he had to close the Institute. The arrival of the Allies liberated him in August, 1944, and later he reopened the Institute in Florence.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Writer and lecturer, Dr. Assagioli has traveled extensively in Switzerland, England, France, Holland and in America. His essays and articles, some of which have been translated into eight languages, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">number several hundred. Included among them are:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br>\n<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Psychology and the Art of Living<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The Subconscious and the Superconscious<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The Mystery of the Self<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">A New Method of Healing: Psychosynthesis<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Music as a Cause of Disease and as a Healing Agent<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">How to Learn Languages \u200b\u200bthrough the Subconscious<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Psychological Types<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The Training of the Will<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Psychoanalysis and Psychosynthesis<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Spiritual Development and Nervous Diseases<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Psychology and Religion<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Transformation and Sublimation of the Sexual Energies<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Transformation and Sublimation of the Combative Energies<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">For Parents Only<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Contributions of Psychology to Intercultural Understanding<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The Education of Gifted Children<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span dir=\"auto\" style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Psychosynthesis, both as a psychotherapy and as a method of education, has grown steadily through the years, so that the Institute of Psychosynthesis, now at Via San Domenico 16, Florence, Italy, is establishing Centers and branches in various countries.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the foundation legally existed, its founders wrote down what they hoped for. This psychosynthesis research program named the superconscious, the will, gifted children, and the training of practitioners. By Roberto Assagioli and Co-WorkersWritten circa April 1957 (Derived from AAP Archive, Folder PRF_AAP_Correspondences, 1957) Preliminary Vision Statement Prior to Legal Incorporation (November 1957) Editorial NoteThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-various-assagioli-articles","entry","override","gs-1","gs-odd","gs-even","gs-featured-content-entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Psychosynthesis Research: The Founding Blueprint<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Where would psychosynthesis research start? 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