ABSTRACT
The major psychosynthesis concepts considered here are the nature of the person, and particularly the relationship of the conscious to the unconscious, the personality to the soul, and the therapeutic methods of working with this material. But Assagioli's prime concept, spelt out in the name of the psychotherapeutic system, is that of synthesis. Assagioli, as indicated throughout his last book, saw the use of personal will as being the primary directing agent in synthesis: will is a synthetic power. Assagioli's view was that there is a natural progression towards synthesis: that as people live nearer to the soul than to the personality, there is automatically a move to the next larger whole', which might be a personal relationship, a committed group, an awareness of a national or international concern, a different commitment to the universal. Both Assagioli and other psychosynthesis writers have spoken about psychosynthesis work with the couple, the family, the group, the institution.
