Roberto Assagioli

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Roberto Assagioli (born February 27, 1888 in Venice , Italy ; † August 23, 1974 in Capolona , Arezzo , Italy) was a pioneer of transpersonal psychology and psychotherapy . He was a doctor, psychiatrist and psychotherapist and developed psychosynthesis , a model of the human being that encompasses body, mind and spirit. This forms the basis for therapeutic psychosynthesis, but is also used in education, in social fields, in the area of ​​personal development and counseling and interpersonal relationships. Psychosynthesis is considered to be an important basis in the development of humanistic and transpersonal psychology and psychotherapy.

Life

Roberto Assagioli's full name was Roberto Marco Grego Todesco Assagioli. The mother Elena Kaula, born in Egypt, came from a Venetian family, the father Leone Grego was an engineer and came from Verona . Both were Jews. The father died when Roberto was two years old. The mother later married the doctor Emmanuele Assagioli, who adopted Roberto. Roberto's cultural education was very extensive thanks to a stimulating family environment and good financial resources. As a child he learned three languages ​​almost at the same time. In Venice he attended the Foscarini Lyceum . In 1904, at the age of 16, he obtained his Abitur with very good grades. According to Alessandro Berti's study, this school benefited Assagioli's classical, humanistic and scientific inclinations. This broad interest from philosophy and literature to science ran throughout his life. In addition to his native Italian, he spoke fluent German, English and French and read classical (i.e. so-called "old -") Greek, Latin, Russian and Sanskrit . His interest encompassed a wide range of subject areas and areas of knowledge, and he conducted particularly intensive research in the border areas between medicine, education and religion.

In November 1904 the Assagioli family moved to Florence , where Roberto began his medical studies: first with an emphasis on surgery, then psychiatry . Psychology was not yet an independent subject, so his interest in the human psyche paved a different path. Assagioli's cultural interests were also broad; in 1906 he began working for the Florentine newspaper Leonardo . In 1906 he traveled to Vienna, presumably met Freud , in any case he had contact with his environment. In the same year he had contact with Roman theosophists . In Geneva he met the psychologists Édouard Claparède and Théodore Flournoy , who was also in contact with Carl Gustav Jung and with whom he remained in contact for a long time. In 1907 an article appeared in the magazine Leonardo , entitled “Il nuovo pensiero americano” (in German about “The New American Thought”), which already contained some of the fundamental ideas of his later work, Psychosynthesis , e . B. the emphasis on the will as an important soul force in man. In 1907 Assagioli visited Burghölzli , the psychiatric university clinic in Zurich, and decided to make psychoanalysis the subject of his doctoral thesis. Here he also met Carl Gustav Jung and was a regular guest there. On July 13, 1909, Jung wrote to Sigismund Freud: “... among them a certain Dr. Assagioli from Florence, from the psychiatric clinic there. He is an open, receptive young man ... ” . He remained connected with Jung until his death. In August 1909 Assagioli attended the International Psychological Congress in Geneva. Here he dealt intensively with the psychology of religious expression, mysticism and their extraordinary states of consciousness, which fall into the field of transpersonal psychology. In 1909 he began his doctoral thesis entitled "La Psicoanalisi" with Professor Tanzi in Florence , which he concluded with a disputation on July 1, 1910 and with which he received his doctorate in medicine.

After his graduation, Assagioli worked as an assistant doctor to Eugen Bleuler in the Burghölzli psychiatry. At that time, Bleuler first described “being divided in the mind” as schizophrenia . Bleuler was extremely critical of S. Freud at the time Assagioli was working for him. After his time as an assistant doctor, Assagioli practiced as a psychiatrist in Italy, he belonged to the circle of early psychoanalysts and was significantly involved in establishing psychoanalysis in Italy. He was a member of the Arcane School founded by Alice Bailey and its representative for Italy.

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Psychosynthesis

From 1910 onwards, Assagioli pointed out the limitations of the psychoanalytic concept: as long as humans are only understood as conditioned by their biological instincts , they can only be partially grasped, but not seen in their entirety . Assagioli's concern was to develop a scientific psychology that recognizes the reality of the soul and that includes joy , meaning , fulfillment , creativity , love and wisdom , i.e. the higher energies and strivings of human existence, as well as the impulses , urges and needs the vital basis of human nature.

He created his psychological concept and worldview that Psychosynthese with which he embarked on the scientific knowledge of medicine and psychology and the wisdom teachings of the nations together into a human that the biological bondage of being human in a larger context of personal choice and responsibility embed should and this in turn in an even more comprehensive of spiritual connectedness and participation.

Quotes

“I have a body, but I am not my body.
I have feelings, but I am not my feelings.
I have wishes, but I am not my wishes.
I have a mind, but I am not my mind.
I am a center of pure awareness. "

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"One of the main causes of today's mess is the lack of love on the part of those who have will and the lack of will on the part of those who are good and loving."

- from: The training of the will

Works

Original editions

Published during his lifetime:

  • Psychosynthesis. A Manual of Principles and Techniques , Hobbs, Dormann & Company, New York 1965.
  • Psicosintesi. Per l'armonia della vita , Mediterranee, Roma 1966.
  • The Act of Will , Viking Press, New York 1973.

Published posthumously :

  • Psychosynthesis Typology (= translation of the Italian original I tipi umani ), The Institute of Psychosynthesis, London 1983.
  • Educare l'uomo domani , Ed. Istituto di Psicosintesi, Firenze 1988.
  • Lo sviluppo transpersonalale (a cura di M. Macchia Girelli), Astrolabio, Roma 1988.
  • Comprendere la Psicosintesi (a cura di M. Macchia Girelli), Astrolabio, Roma 1991.
  • Psicosintesi. Per l'armonia della vita , Astrolabio, Roma 1993.

German translations

  • Manual of Psychosynthesis. Applied transpersonal psychology . Edited, edited and provided with a foreword by Erhardt Hanefeld, Aurum, Freiburg 1978.
  • Manual of Psychosynthesis. Principles, methods and techniques , API, Adliswil 1988.
  • Manual of Psychosynthesis. Basics, methods and techniques , Nawo, Rümlang 2004, ISBN 3-9522591-0-1 .
  • The training of the will. Methods of psychotherapy and self-therapy , Junfermann, Paderborn 1982 (9th edition 2003), ISBN 3-87387-202-1 .
  • Psychosynthesis and Transpersonal Development , Junfermann, Paderborn 1992.
  • “Psychosynthesis and Transpersonal Development”. Nawo, Rümlang 2008, ISBN 978-3-9522591-5-3
  • “Psychosynthesis Harmony of Life”. Nawo, Rümlang 2010, ISBN 978-3-9522591-6-0
  • Typology of Psychosynthesis. The 7 basic types , API, Adliswil 1992, ISBN 3-85523-605-4 .

literature

  • Piero Ferrucci: Become what you are. Self-realization through psychosynthesis , Rowohlt (paperback), Reinbek 1986 (15th edition 2005), ISBN 3-499-17980-6 .
  • Will Parfitt: Psychosynthesis , Aurum, Braunschweig 1992.
  • Janette Rainwater: Therapy on your own responsibility. An exercise program for self-help , Hugendubel (Irisiana), Munich 1993.
  • Ulla Pfluger-Heist: Strength lies in the soul , Nawo, Rümlang (new edition) 2007, ISBN 978-3-9522591-4-6 .
  • Sascha Dönges / Catherine Brunner Dubey: Psychosynthesis for practice. Basics, methods, areas of application , Kösel, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-466-30679-4 .
  • Paola Giovetti: Roberto Assagioli. Life and work of the founder of psychosynthesis , Nawo, Rümlang 2007, ISBN 978-3-9522591-2-2 .
  • Gertraud Reichert / Karl Winter: From the secret of cheerful serenity , 2nd edition, Nawo, Rümlang 2007, ISBN 978-3-9522591-1-5
  • Psychosynthesis , magazine published twice a year since 1999, Nawo, Rümlang

Web links

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  1. ↑ The Unfinished Autobiography. Netnews Association, 1998, pp. 219 ff. , Archived from the original on March 11, 2007 ; accessed on June 29, 2014 (English).
  2. ↑ Roberto Assagioli, Psychosynthesis, and the Esoteric Roots of Transpersonal Psychology ( Memento of August 24, 2006 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Rachel Harris: Relaxed! The great power of small breaks , Bauer Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-7626-0836-9 , page 296 (note: the sentences mentioned by the psychiatrist Roberto Assagioli can also be used for mental exercises).
personal data
SURNAME Assagioli, Roberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pioneer of transpersonal psychology and psychotherapy
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH 23rd August 1974
Place of death Capolona