The Way of Psychosynthesis: A Complete Guide to Origins, Concepts, and the Fundamental Experiences, with a Biography of Roberto Assagioli

This book is an invitation to anyone who wants to gain a broad and comprehensive overview of the evolution of Psychosynthesis, from the first written works published by Roberto Assagioli in the early 1900s to the great contributions of his students and other contemporary Psychosynthesis practitioners.
Who was Roberto Assagioli and how did his life influence his work? What important contributions did he make to the birth and development of the major forces of psychology? What is Psychosynthesis? What is the Psychosynthesis view of human nature and self-realization? What constitutes the essential core of this approach?
In answering these fundamental questions, this book guides the reader through a fascinating journey to discover, step by step, the key concepts and experiences of Psychosynthesis.
The most complete guide published so far.

"The science of psychology was born and developed as we know it today in the course of the past century. In that same fertile period Roberto Assagioli created Psychosynthesis. In this book Petra Guggisberg Nocelli outlines with depth and clarity its history to this day, its main ideas, techniques, aspects and applications. An essential work for those who want to understand this adventure of the spirit." Piero Ferrucci, Philosopher, Training Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor and Author, SIPT

"'The Way of Psychosynthesis' is the first comprehensive view of how Psychosynthesis fits into the entire field of psychology, noting how it helped to define the 4th force, transpersonal psychology, and via 'psychoenergetics' how it leads the future of the field. A work of great love and deep scholarship, it is an amazingly thorough book and one we need. Dr. Nocelli has taken on a challenge in Psychosynthesis literature which has not yet been engaged in. I am so very happy to have it in the world." Dorothy Firman, Professor, Author, Trainer and Director of The Synthesis Center

"Each chapter of 'The Way of Psychosynthesis', while having autonomy in a monographic sense, is an organic whole and offers a real path of research and development of psychosynthetic theory and practice. You have the impression of being in front of a harmonious and richly colored mandala, which allows us to look through Psychosynthesis in the multidimensionality of space and of time." Gianni Yoav Dattilo, Psychologist, Training Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor, SIPT

"Welcome to this 'guide' to the 'Way of Psychosynthesis'. The young author, of the latest generation of psychosynthesists, creates a truly large framework that tends toward an essential completeness. This volume deserves to occupy a significant place in the recent development of psychosynthetic literature. It is recommended to anyone interested in understanding Psychosynthesis, not in a superficially informative way but essentially and with a broad breadth." Massimo Rosselli, Psychiatrist, Training Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor, SIPT, and Past President, EFPP

"A great achievement: well written, informative, interesting and engaging. Every training organization should have it on their essential reading list and I will certainly be recommending it to my students." Will Parfitt, Psychotherapist, Psychosynthesis Trainer, Director of PS Avalon and Author

"The most comprehensive academic textbook on Psychosynthesis to date. I am happy for the cause of Psychosynthesis that Petra Guggisberg Nocelli has done such a magnificent work and contributed to the legacy of Psychosynthesis and Assagioli." Kenneth Sørensen, Psychotherapist, Psychosynthesist, Manager/CEO at JivaYou and Author

"'The Way of Psychosynthesis' is an intrinsic work of psychosynthetic spirit. By avoiding superfluity, the author says all the essentials with a clarity that makes it very easy to assimilate. A vacuum has been filled in the psychosynthetic literature. Definitely recommended as a didactic text." Vittorio Viglienghi, Psychosynthesis Trainer and Author, Institute of Psychosynthesis and IIPE

"This book is an excellent text of Psychosynthesis, complete and exhaustive. It was written with the mind and heart and deserves wide circulation." Alberto Alberti, Psychiatrist, Training Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor and Author, SIPT

"'The Way of Psychosynthesis' is a systematic and accurate vision of Psychosynthesis, which also takes into account recent developments in Assagiolian theory." Andrea Bocconi, Psychologist, Training Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor and Author, SIPT