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willofthewarrior ago

"Spiritual goals of "self-realization" and the "interindividual psychosynthesis" – of 'social integration...the harmonious integration of the individual into ever larger groups up to the "one humanity"'[2] – were central to Assagioli's theory.[1] Psychosynthesis was not intended to be a school of thought or an exclusive method[3] but many conferences and publications had it as a central theme and centres were formed in Italy and the United States in the 1960s." "Assagioli was not the first to use the term "psychosynthesis". The earliest was by James Jackson Putnam, who used it as the name of his electroconvulsive therapy. The term was also used by C. G. Jung and A. R. Orage, who were both far closer to Assagioli's thinking than Putnam. C. G. Jung had written, comparing his goals to those of Sigmund Freud, "If there is a 'psychoanalysis' there must also be a 'psychosynthesis which creates future events according to the same laws'." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosynthesis

  • Jung
  • Freud
  • 1960s
  • pseudointellectual babble

Looks like a product of its time. Psychology was in a poor state back then.