Not exact matches
The will, understood
as the capacity for decision, planning, and purpose, is regarded
as a key resource in all phases of
psychosynthesis.
As do other therapies,
psychosynthesis seeks to help people utilize their sexual and aggressive energies creatively.
The primary emphasis,
as the word «
psychosynthesis» suggests, is synthesis — «an integration, a wholeness, a unity, a harmonious use of all your potentialities.»
The impact of
psychosynthesis on pastoral counseling theory and practice has been relatively slight, even though it is potentially invaluable
as a resource for any spiritually oriented counselor.
Certainly this role is explicitly realized in Jung's works,
as well
as in Assagioli's
Psychosynthesis.
(12) Rejecting Freud's determinism, Rank, like Assagioli (the creator of
psychosynthesis), regarded will
as the very core of human personality.
Some of Jung's insights anticipated similar thrusts in therapies such
as gestalt and
psychosynthesis.
Epstein, who says she had a «cancer - prone personality,» then turned to
psychosynthesis, which she describes
as a «combination of psychotherapy and spiritual therapy.»