Roberto Assagioli
Roberto Assagioli
Roberto Assagioliwas an Italian psychiatrist and pioneer in the fields of humanistic and transpersonal psychology. Assagioli founded the psychological movement known as Psychosynthesis, which is still being developed today by therapists and psychologists, who practice the psychological methods and techniques he developed. His work, expounded in two books and many monographs published as pamphlets, emphasized the possibility of progressive integration, or synthesis, of the personality...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth27 February 1888
CountryItaly
Roberto Assagioli quotes about
Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
Through its influence upon the unconscious, music can have a specific healing effect. It can help in eliminating repressions and resistances, and it can bring into the field of waking consciousness many drives, emotions and complexes which were creating difficulties in the unconscious.
The will is not merely assertive, aggressive, and controlling. There is the accepting will, yielding will, the dedicated will. You might say that there is a feminine polarity to the will – the willing surrender, the joyful acceptance of the other functions of the personality.
Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions.
We suffer from a repression of the sublime.