WHAT IS PSYCHOSYNTHESIS? By Martha Crampton
The Italian psychiatrist Roberto Assagioli began Psychosynthesis in 1910. Seeing the need to expand beyond Freud’s analysis and “talking cure”, he added synthesis and a broader use of our human abilities, such as will, imagination, and intuition.
He included even our spiritual side, our higher aspirations, and our center, which he called the Self. People use Psychosynthesis as a way of life – and in a wide variety of fields, such as education, psychology, business, and spirituality.
Whether student or sage, we all can enhance our development, live a more centered life, have more unrestricted use of will, and enjoy a greater sense of mutual responsibility and caring.
Psychosynthesis offers tools for many purposes: embracing opposed parts of our inner worlds, enriching each other with our differences, making groups and organizations function with greater purpose, and enjoying a respectful interchange with the world that envelops us.
The main goal of the broad-ranging theory and methods of Psychosynthesis is to enhance the full range of human experience and support our movement toward Self-realization.
Martha Crampton further describes Psychosynthesis in the attached article and you can also find an introduction in Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosynthesis
