Psychosynthesis (Topical Term)

Work cat.: Hardy, J. A psychology with a soul: Psychosynthesis in evolutionary context, 1986 (Psychosynthesis is a comprehensive approach to self-realization ...)

English Comp. dict. psy. & psychoanal. terms: p. 429 (the opposite of psychoanalysis; a form of counterpsychiatry)

Hennepin.

Eysenck encycl. psy.: p. 885 (a form of psychotherapy regarded as a complement of psychoanalysis. It aims above all at the reconstruction of the personality after defense mechanisms and resistance have been corrected by analytical methods)

Campbell Psych. dict.: p. 519 (the act of combining individual components of the mind into a whole)

Baker encycl. psych.: p. 956 (...Psychosynthesis has affinities with humanistic and existential psychologies...in its emphasis on will and the direct experience of self)

Kaplan psych.; APA Psych. gloss.; MESH; Harriman Psych. terms; Pieron Vocab psych.; Chaplin Dict. psych.; Harriman Encyc. psych.; Thesaurus psych. index terms; Psych. abst.; NIH

Here are entered works on a therapeutic process that combines a variety of techniques and exercises from Eastern philosophy and religion to arrive at the harmonious integration of elements of the psyche under the direction of a personal center of consciousness or will.