The Soul of Psychosynthesis: The Seven Core Concepts

by kenneth sørensen

Overview

Shortly before his death at 85 in 1974 Dr. Roberto Assagioli, one of the founding fathers of transpersonal psychology, described what he regarded as the essence of Psychosynthesis. It was, for him, a psychology which had the soul as a spiritual Being at its center.

It is no surprise that Psychosynthesis has since been seen as a “Psychology with a Soul”.

The Soul of Psychosynthesis aims at understanding what this means. It presents the essence of Psychosynthesis through the Seven Core Concepts that Assagioli defined as the foundation of his work, and which some today see as his “Last Will,” his final statement about his ideas and their practical application.

The Soul of Psychosynthesis will enable the reader to discover the wisdom in the Seven Core Concepts and realise that:

Disidentification – is a way to Freedom

The self – is a way to Presence

The will – is a way to Power

The ideal model – is a way to Focus

Synthesis – is a way to Flow

The Superconscious – is a way to Abundance

The Transpersonal Self – is a way to Love

The Soul of Psychosynthesis is a concise introduction and practical guide to the fundamental ideas of one of the most important therapeutic approaches in the modern world

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788792252180
Publisher:	Kentaur Publishing
Publication date:	05/30/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	593,838
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Kenneth Sørensen (1962) is an author, publisher, and the Academic Director of the Norwegian Institute of Psychosynthesis. He has an MA in Psychosynthesis from the University of East London and is a trained Psychosynthesis Psychotherapist. He has taught Psychosynthesis, Meditation, and Energy Psychology for many years, and has developed several training programs within these fields. For a decade he worked in Social Psychiatry as a Mental Health Consultant. Sørensen is the author of several books about esoteric philosophy and meditation, most recently Call to Greatness - Integral Meditation and the Way to Freedom. His new book, The Soul of Psychosynthesis, continues his explorations into the connections between psychotherapy and spirituality.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Kenneth Sørensen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Chapter 1 The Soul of Psychosynthesis - the Seven Core Concepts . . . 13 Chapter 2 The Psychosynthesis Model of the Personality . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Chapter 3 The Developmental Theory of Psychosynthesis . . . . . . . . . . 43 Chapter 4 Disidentification - the Way to Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Chapter 5 The self - the Way to Presence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Chapter 6 The Will - the Way to Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Chapter 7 The Ideal Model - the Way to Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Chapter 8 Synthesis - the Way to Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Chapter 9 The Superconscious - the Way to Abundance . . . . . . . . . . 128 Chapter 10 The Transpersonal Self - the Way to Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Appendix Roberto Assagioli - a Biography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Training - a statement from Roberto Assagioli . . . . . . . . . . . . . .170 Assagioli's self-identification exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173 Awareness meditation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..180 Creative meditation on the Ideal Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 The Soul Flow method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184 Creative meditation on Intuition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189