ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the complex and delicate guiding work which is the action of psychosynthesis. Freud, at the beginning of the century, experimented with various techniques for use in both diagnosis and treatment: hypnosis that is, putting the patient into a sleep-like state in which he or she was more likely to have access to unconscious material, was used in the earliest psychoanalytic work. The spirit of this comment leads naturally on to the use of free drawing and writing, which are both assessment and therapeutic tools in work with the unconscious. Ferrucci devotes the eleventh chapter of his book to visualization and the use of symbols to get in touch with the unconscious as part of his therapeutic work. Kretschmer comments on the religious basis of Happich's work the combination of psychological and religious concerns which is also the basis of psychosynthesis.
