Psychosynthesis
Psychospiritual Psychotherapy
How we uniquely experience the world has its foundations in an intricate web of psychological developments that span a lifetime, whilst being formed with significance in our early years. Navigating our way through our biographical history in order to bring awareness and effect change in the present is an essential part of the working-context of psychotherapy.
In addition to these ‘psychoanalytic’ foundations, much research now demonstrates the majority of therapeutic benefit can be found in the relational field between client and therapist. Humans are relational beings from the moment of our birth and essential psychological developmental milestones (as well as psychological ‘misattunements’) happen in relationship with another. In our early years this internal development of ‘self’ takes place through our relationships with parents, family or early caregivers. For similar reasons, the deeply empathic relational field between client and therapist permits the internal ‘reconstellating’ of misattuned psychological structures that have developed from failures in the relational field in those formative years. Such humanistic paradigms of psychotherapy have in this way built upon psychotherapy's founding analytical traditions...
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Tending to the whole...
More recently the field of Psychology and Psychotherapy is expanding its inclusivity of human potential by
re-valuing the essential transpersonal moorings of the human being (honoured by eastern traditions for centuries). The psychospiritual context of Psychosynthesis acknowledges a person’s individual uniqueness as well as their connection to the ‘whole’ or ‘trans-personal’. An individual’s connection to the 'whole' could be felt as an ancestral-longing, a feeling of connection and love for the living earth, or through meditation or shamanic practice providing experiences of an expanding consciousness that includes the cosmic or universal. Psychosynthesis instead of introducing simply another paradigm of therapeutic approach, like those that have come before, remains informed by traditional frame-works whilst holding those greater transpersonal developmental potentials in mind. Cultivation of personal awareness in the service of ever greater levels of self and collective realisation is permitted to be the wider context for the individual’s therapeutic journey.