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'''Roberto Assagioli''' ([[Venice]],[[February 27]], [[1888]] - [[Capolona]] d'[[Arezzo]], [[August 23]], [[1974]]) was an influential [[Italy|Italian]] [[psychiatrist]] who was the founder of the psychological movement known as [[Psychosynthesis]]. He was the first psychiatrist to integrate elements of what are often considered religious and spiritual concepts into modern psychology. <ref>http://aap-psychosynthesis.org/assagioli.htm</ref>
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==Biography==
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'''Assagioli''' was one of three Italians credited with being pioneers of the [[psychoanalytic]] movement.
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At the same time, around 1910, Assagioli laid the groundwork for [[Psychosynthesis]]. He saw that there was a need for something beyond analysis. This was the need for a person to become whole - to be united in synthesis.
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Assagioli maintained that just as there was a lower unconscious, there was also a superconscious. He describes this as a realm of the psyche which contains our deepest potential, the source of the unfolding pattern of our unique human path of development. Assagioli formulated his discoveries into an approach he called psychosynthesis. This term, of course, distinguishes it from psychoanalysis, but Assagioli did not mean thereby to replace psychoanalysis, but rather to complement and include it.
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Psychosynthesis then is not simply a model of pathology and treatment, but a developmental approach which can help guide a person to understand the meaning of their human life within the broad context of synthesis - the drive towards the harmonisation of all relationships, whether intrapersonal, or interpersonal, between individuals and groups.
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Assagioli was also a coworker of [[Alice Bailey]], who had founded a [[New Age]] esoteric school called the Arcane School. In the book ''Discipleship in the New Age'', channeled by Bailey to a small group of students, he is known by the initials F.C.D. standing for "Freedom from Ties, Chelaship, and Detachment."<ref>http://www.almankoff.com/psyn.shtml</ref>. It was his intention that this information would never be made public because of concern that his connection with Alice Bailey would harm the professional standing of Psychosynthesis. 
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"Only the development of his inner powers can offset the dangers inherent in man's losing control of the tremendous natural forces at his disposal and becoming the victim of his own achievements."
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- Roberto Assagioli, The Act of Will, 2002, p. 6
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==Selected works==
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* ''Psychosynthesis: A Collection of Basic Writings'' by Roberto Assagioli ISBN 0-9678570-0-7
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* ''The Act of Will'' by Roberto Assagioli ISBN 0-670-10309-8
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* ''Transpersonal Development: The Dimension Beyond Psychosynthesis'' by Roberto Assagioli ISBN 1-85538-291-1
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==References==
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==See also==
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* [[Psychosynthesis]]
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* [[Humanistic psychology]]
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* [[Religion and mythology]]
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==External links==
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* [http://www.psicosintesi.it/ Istituto di Psicosintesi] The Institute of Psychosynthesis founded by Roberto Assagioli
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* [http://www.aap-psychosynthesis.org/assagioli.htm In Memoriam: Roberto Assagioli] Dr. Roberto Assagioli, founder of Psychosynthesis
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*[http://www.psychosynthesis.org/ The Institute of Psychosynthesis, London - Counselling and Psychotherapy Training and Self-Development]
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* [http://www.synthesiscenter.org/two.html A few words about Dr.Assagioli] by Piero Ferrucci
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* [http://www.almankoff.com/psyn.shtml Roberto Assagioli, Psychosynthesis,and the Esoteric Roots of Transpersonal Psychology]
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* [http://www.willproject.org/ The Will Project] was a project proposed by Roberto Assagioli to explore all aspects and manifestations of the Will.
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Roberto Assagioli (Venice,February 27, 1888 - Capolona d'Arezzo, August 23, 1974) was an influential Italian psychiatrist who was the founder of the psychological movement known as Psychosynthesis. He was the first psychiatrist to integrate elements of what are often considered religious and spiritual concepts into modern psychology. [1]

Biography

Assagioli was one of three Italians credited with being pioneers of the psychoanalytic movement.

At the same time, around 1910, Assagioli laid the groundwork for Psychosynthesis. He saw that there was a need for something beyond analysis. This was the need for a person to become whole - to be united in synthesis.

Assagioli maintained that just as there was a lower unconscious, there was also a superconscious. He describes this as a realm of the psyche which contains our deepest potential, the source of the unfolding pattern of our unique human path of development. Assagioli formulated his discoveries into an approach he called psychosynthesis. This term, of course, distinguishes it from psychoanalysis, but Assagioli did not mean thereby to replace psychoanalysis, but rather to complement and include it.

Psychosynthesis then is not simply a model of pathology and treatment, but a developmental approach which can help guide a person to understand the meaning of their human life within the broad context of synthesis - the drive towards the harmonisation of all relationships, whether intrapersonal, or interpersonal, between individuals and groups.

Assagioli was also a coworker of Alice Bailey, who had founded a New Age esoteric school called the Arcane School. In the book Discipleship in the New Age, channeled by Bailey to a small group of students, he is known by the initials F.C.D. standing for "Freedom from Ties, Chelaship, and Detachment."[2]. It was his intention that this information would never be made public because of concern that his connection with Alice Bailey would harm the professional standing of Psychosynthesis.

"Only the development of his inner powers can offset the dangers inherent in man's losing control of the tremendous natural forces at his disposal and becoming the victim of his own achievements." - Roberto Assagioli, The Act of Will, 2002, p. 6

Selected works

References
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See also

External links


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