“The journey of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having fresh eyes.”
Michael Proust
About Psychosynthesis
Psychosynthesis offers a hopeful and holistic approach to human growth, blending psychotherapy and neuroscience with Western and Eastern mysticism and philosophy.
As well as addressing our past emotional traumas and understanding how our early experiences influence our behaviour in the present, Psychosynthesis also supports the blossoming of our potential for creativity and inspiration and accessing our own internal sources of strength and wisdom. An integrative transpersonal psychology, it was developed by the Italian psychiatrist Roberto Assagioli, a contemporary of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Rudolf Steiner.
In an interview Assagioli describes the difference between psychoanalysis and psychosynthesis:
"We pay far more attention to the higher unconscious and to the development of the transpersonal self. In one of his letters, Freud said, "I am interested only in the basement of the human being. Psychosynthesis is interested in the whole building. We try to build an elevator which will allow a person access to every level of his personality. After all, a building with only a basement is very limited. We want to open up the terrace where you can sunbathe or look at the stars.'‘
You can read the rest of this interview on my blog.
You can find more resources and information about Psychosynthesis on my blog.
“There is no certainty only adventure.”
Roberto Assagioli