ABSTRACT
Roberto Assagioli was interested in Jewish culture and continued to receive Jewish newspapers and belong to Jewish organizations for most of his life. He also became a mountain climber a key image in psychosynthesis. Assagioli continued his own wide research throughout the period between the wars; he was in touch with, amongst others, Croce, Tagore and Inayat Khan, a Sufi leader. During the First World War, Assagioli served as a doctor and non-combatant. He lived in Rome during the period between the two wars. He met and married his wife, Nella, a Roman Catholic and a Theosophist, in the 1920s. They were married for forty years and had one son, Ilario. He was influenced by Steiner, Suzuki and Ouspensky. His concerns grew outward from individual therapy and education to concern with the social situation of the world. The forces of fascism and war were gathering, and from 1922 to 1943 Italy was ruled by Mussolini.
