Sentences with word «psychosynthesis»

Erma Pixley, a marriage and family counselor, leads growth groups for women using a variety of psychosynthesis methods.

I first experienced the transforming power of this perspective as a client in a relationship with a therapist trained in psychosynthesis.

He has counselling, psychotherapy and psychosynthesis training, and has over 10 years of experience facilitating a variety of groups with both adults and youth.

For an illuminating discussion of subpersonalities, see the paper by James G. Vargiu in «Psychosynthesis Workbook,» Synthesis, vol.

Psychosynthesis seeks to combine the objectivity of science with the passion of a seeker for religious truth.

Psychosynthesis offers a variety of methods for facilitating spiritual growth by opening oneself to the creative energies and wisdom of one's higher Self.

Paraphrased from Psychosynthesis, pp. 118 - 19.

Over the years, Lesley has studied and practiced many healing modalities, such as Psychosynthesis Psychotherapy, Polarity Therapy, Swedish Massage, Pre-Perinatal massage, and Reiki.

She has worked as a SENCO and class teacher in both special and mainstream schools; and is also a trained psychosynthesis therapist.

When asked about the difference between psychosynthesis and psychoanalysis, in an interview not long before his death, he responded with a striking metaphor:

This means psychosynthesis is holistic, global and inclusive.

Consequently there has been too little effort invested in applying psychosynthesis to interpersonal relationships and to impacting the wider structures of society and the ecosystem.

Clearly psychosynthesis is a system - oriented approach.

A therapist begins psychosynthesis by discovering the particular needs stemming from the unique problems that an individual is facing.

According to psychosynthesis theory, we are dominated by that with which we are identified.

Psychosynthesis recognizes and respects the need of many people for formal religion.

Although this therapy has a thoroughly ecological - systemic conception of growth, the lion's share of attention in psychosynthesis circles has been given to intrapsychic growth.

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.

But in the last decade his books have been translated into many languages, and psychosynthesis institutes have developed in various parts of the world.

He continued to change and develop psychosynthesis until his death in Florence in 1974.

Psychosynthesis affirms the natural drive of persons to grow by integrating their lives at higher levels.

The weaknesses in psychosynthesis seem to me to be relatively minor, when viewed in the context of its many strengths.

Churchill, Craig M, Contributions of Psychosynthesis Toward a Growth Oriented Model of Pastoral Counseling.

Psychosynthesis considers a human life to move toward self - realization but many get detoured by their primal woundedness.

Although she never received any medical or surgical treatment for the deadly cancer invading her lungs, six weeks after starting psychosynthesis, her tumors began to shrink.

Though you may feel stuck, confused, powerless or fearful, Psychosynthesis helps you contact an inherent inner wisdom at the core of your being, calling you to grow through your distress.

Hopefully it will become an increasingly central concern of therapists who are developing the theory and practice of psychosynthesis.

As do other therapies, psychosynthesis seeks to help people utilize their sexual and aggressive energies creatively.

Psychosynthesis offers a method and daily practice that helps a person overcome obstacles, attune to their own inner voice, and move towards a greater sense of purpose and meaning.

Some of the common images used in psychosynthesis include seeing oneself walking along a stream, being in a meadow, visiting a house, becoming a lion (to get in touch with one's strong, assertive side), and so on.

The first level of psychosynthesis is personal synthesis.

Psychosynthesis is a whole - person approach to healing and growth.

Psychosynthesis, A Manual of Principles and Techniques.

«Psychosynthesis: A Psychotherapist's Personal Overview,» Pastoral Psychology, Fall, 1976, pp. 16 - 33.

The application of psychosynthesis to the development of global consciousness.

The therapist takes an active role in the early phase of psychosynthesis, utilizing whatever methods are needed to actualize that dimension of a person's potentials.

The nonhierarchical, egalitarian style of psychosynthesis is expressed in Assagioli's view that having a therapist, although an advantage, is not essential: «Psychosynthesis can be applied by the individual himself or herself, fostering and accelerating inner growth and self - actualization..., Such self - psychosynthesis should be practiced... by every therapist, social worker, and educator (including parents).»

The imagination is another essential growth resource in psychosynthesis.

The psychosynthesis journal, which includes a Psychosynthesis Workbook with practical techniques for enhancing one's growth.

Psychosynthesis has identified hundreds of other subpersonalities.

Psychosynthesis was developed by psychiatrist Roberto Assagioli, who was born in Venice, Italy, in 1888.

What are the resistances to growth in psychosynthesis?

Until the last few years, I did not sense the significance of psychosynthesis and therefore did not take time to explore this therapy in depth.

«Global Education and Psychosynthesis.»

Psychosynthesis is also explicitly spiritually oriented.

The third level of the process of psychosynthesis, according to Assagioli, is transpersonal synthesis.

The purpose of life, as understood in psychosynthesis, is to manifest this Self as fully as possible in one's everyday life and relationships.

Although there are three phases of the process of psychosynthesis, in actual practice the phases do not necessarily occur in succession or separately.

The choice of particular therapeutic methods in psychosynthesis is made in light of the emerging growth needs of each individual.