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Key Concepts of psychosynthesis

Explore the key concepts of psychosynthesis through articles by contemporary contributors and Roberto Assagioli’s original texts.

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Articles

Core Concept Series: Will Parfitt ‘Assagioli’s Aladdin’s Cave of Riches’

Assagioli’s Aladdin’s Cave of Riches: “the Psychosynthesis Manual”  by Will Parfitt

Core Concept Series: Allan Frater discusses Imagination

Core Concept Series: Jena Wrigley discusses Universal Will

Core Concept Series: Petra Guggisberg Nocelli discusses the Psychosynthetic Journey

The Spirit of Inquiry: a video by Kim Shiller, Programmes Director at the Trust.

Psychosynthesis psychotherapist Piero Ferrucci, on the convergence between the worlds of psychosynthesis and neuroscience.

Psychosynthesis in the light of neuroscience

Psychosynthesis psychotherapist Petra Guggisberg Nocelli on the uses and limitations of language: reflections on Assagioli’s Wall of Silence.

The Wall of Silence as Creator of Bridges

 

An article by Diana Whitmore on psychosynthesis counselling and the process of therapy.

Psychosynthesis: Psychology with a Soul – Diana Whitmore

A video by Didi Firman at the Synthesis Centre in America, evaluating the meaning of Assagioli’s egg diagram.

Didi Firman on the Egg Diagram

 

The core concepts of psychosynthesis that give it its “own original and central essence,” by Kenneth Sørensen.

Psychosynthesis: The 7 Core Concepts by Kenneth Sørensen

The core values of psychosynthesis that can inform the stance of a psychosynthesis practitioner.

Psychosynthesis Values : The Psychosynthesis Stance

The psychological laws, posited by Assagioli, which govern our ability to skilfully apply our will.

The Psychological Laws by Roberto Assagioli

The Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors give an overview of Assagioli’s conceptualisation of the Will.

The Will

A key text by Roberto Assagioli on The Will: summary and links to purchase.

The Act of Will: A Guide to Self-actualisation and Self-realisation

Keith Sylvester, psychosynthesis psychotherapist, discusses the various interpretations of the egg diagram in relation to the ego.

The Egg and the Ego

An address given by Assagioli at the Sixth International Congress of Psychotherapy, London, England, August 1964.

Assagioli: Synthesis in Psychotherapy

Roberto Assagioli discusses ways to resolve, or prevent conflicts produced by aggressive or combative energies.

Assagioli: The Resolution of Conflicts

Assagioli explores the symbols of transpersonal experiences and what illuminations can come from them.

Assagioli: Symbols of Transpersonal Experiences

An exploration of the role of spirituality within self-realisation, and the dangers of omitting the soul from psychoanalysis.

Self-Realisation and Psychological Disturbances

A lecture series on Jung and psychosynthesis in relation to therapy and education.

Assagioli on Jung and Psychosynthesis

 

Psychosynthesis Techniques – Imagination

Psychosynthesis Techniques – Imagination

Chris Ambrose discusses how The Wizard of Oz: The Journey Home can be read as a journey of self-discovery and awareness.

The Way Home: Therapy, Self, and the Wizard of Oz

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