If we look more widely at the political and scientific context during Assagioli’s life (and indeed for much of this century), we begin to see that there was/is inherent in the culture a split between religion and science, and more deeply, a ‘myth of isolation’ (Goodbread Radical Intercourse) infusing the West during this time.  And [...]

s and there are therefore strong psychodynamic roots in psychosynthesis.  In his doctoral thesis Assagioli gave a critique of Freud’s approach, claiming it was incomplete as it did not address the actualised elements of human nature and how to enable man to fully live his potential.  From early on he challenged the purely scientific and [...]