Assagioli noted that Carl Jung, " of all modern psychotherapists, is the closest in theory and practice to psychosynthesis ", and further expanded on the similarities between his own and Jung's views:
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In addition, psychosynthesis recognizes the process of Self-realization, of contact and response with one's deepest callings and directions in life, which can involve either or both personal and transpersonal development.
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Later however, this same Roberto Assagioli ( 1888 1974 ) wrote a doctoral dissertation, " La Psicosintesi, " in which he began to move away from Freud's psychoanalysis towards what he called psychosynthesis:
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Staff and former staff members of the NZ Institute facilitate complementary and associated programmes, including ongoing group process groups, support for women dealing with childlessness, and Self and World, a psychosynthesis endeavour in radical ecopsychology.
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A more technical danger is that premature concern with the transpersonal may hamper dealing with personal psychosynthesis : for example, " evoking serenity . . . might produce a false sense of well-being and security ".
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In 1963 Giorgio Antonucci studied psychoanalysis with Roberto Assagioli, the founder of psychosynthesis, and began to dedicate himself to psychiatry trying to solve the problems of the patients and avoiding hospitalisation and any kind of coercive method.
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This means that no matter what type of experience is engaged, and no matter what phase of growth is negotiated, the complexity and uniqueness of the person may be respected a fundamental principle in any application of psychosynthesis.
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However, authors John Firman and Ann Gila write that Assagioli kept what he referred to as a " wall of silence " between the areas of psychosynthesis and religion or metaphysics, insisting that they not be confused with each other.
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Further, one never outgrows these stages; any stage can be present at any moment throughout the process of Psychosynthesis, Assaglioli acknowledging'persisting traits belonging to preceding psychological ages'and the perennial possibility of'retrogression to primitive stages '.
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Psychosynthesis " has always been on the fringes of the'official'therapy world " and it " is only recently that the concepts and methods of psychoanalysis and group analysis have been introduced into the training and practice of psychosynthesis psychotherapy ".
