CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
ONE THE LIFE AND WORK OF ROBERTO ASSAGIOLI
Roberto Assagioli and His Influences
In Conclusion
TWO THE PSYCHOSYNTHESIS MODEL OF THE PERSON
Assagioli’s Diagram of the Person
The Middle Unconscious
Primal Wounding
The Lower Unconscious
The Higher Unconscious
“I,” Consciousness, and Will
Self
THREE THE STAGES OF PSYCHOSYNTHESIS
Stage Zero: Survival of Wounding
Stage One: Exploration of the Personality
Stage Two: The Emergence of “I”
Stage Three: Contact with Self
Stage Four: Response to Self
In Summation
FOUR MULTIPLICITY WITHIN THE PERSONALITY
Subpersonalities are Normal
The Birth of a Subpersonality
Subpersonalities in Survival
Recognition
Acceptance
Inclusion
Synthesis
FIVE THE NATURE OF PERSONAL IDENTITY
A Disidentification Exercise
Empathic “I”
Spirit, Soma, and Psyche
Transcendence-Immanence
SIX A PSYCHOSYNTHESIS DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY
Bigger Than We
Opening the Inner Door
Authentic Personality
External and Internal Unifying Centers
Primal Wounding
Survival Personality
Recognition
Acceptance
Inclusion
Synthesis
In Conclusion
SEVEN THE HIGHER AND LOWER UNCONSCIOUS
Primal Wounding and Splitting
The Lower Unconscious and Higher Unconscious
Positive and Negative Idealization
Psychological Disturbances
Psychology and Spirituality
EIGHT SELF-REALIZATION
“I” and Self
Personal Psychosynthesis
Transpersonal Psychosynthesis
Self-Realization
In Conclusion
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX