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Who am I if I am not this suffering one?
Gurdjieff

Psychosynthesis is not simply a model of pathology and treatment, but a developmental approach which can help guide a person towards understanding personal purpose and meaning.

Psychosynthesis was developed by Roberto Assagioli (1889-1976), an Italian psychiatrist. His doctoral thesis was a critique of Freud's psychoanalysis, and the latter held him in high regard, hoping that Assagioli would promote psychoanalysis in Italy. Instead Assagioli developed and practiced Psychosynthesis, believing that, valuable as Freud's work was, it focused more on neuroses and the causes of dysfunction, at the expense of accounting for what constituted a healthily functioning human being.

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.

Psychosynthesis psychotherapy has three distinct stages
1) As in many other psychotherapeutic approaches, Psychosynthesis is involved in allowing the client to lead the way, to determine their aims for the therapy, and disclose their history as a context for understanding their difficulties and challenges.
2) Facilitating the client to work through problems and addressing them as current representations of previous dilemmas.
3) Working to enable clients to embrace the intrinsic potential contained within their originally presented issues, aiming for a further personal evolution and engagement with their life journey.

Psychosynthesis psychotherapists are actively involved in the therapeutic relationship and adopt what is known as ‘bi-focal vision’ – a way of seeing the client as essentially much more than his or her problems" (Hardy and Whitmore 2000 p.226).

Is it not written in the Psalms that God preserves all your tears?
So perhaps non of your sufferings were in vain.
Viktor E. Frankl

If you would like to know more about Psychosynthesis please follow the links below:
www.psychosynthesis.org
www.psychosynthesis.edu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosynthesis
http://two.not2.org/psychosynthesis/