A Psychology with a Soul

General Introduction. Part 1: Psychosynthesis: History and Concepts Introduction 1. The History and Development of Psychosynthesis 2. The Nature of the Person 3. Subpersonalities and the Possibility of Synthesis 4. The Search for Meaning: The Self, the Superconscious and the Collective Unconscious 5. Psychosynthesis, Therapeutic Work with the Unconscious: Dreams, Symbols, Myths and Fairy-Tales 6. Techniques in Psychosynthesis Work with the Unconscious 7. The Possibility of Synthesis Part 2: The Split Between Scientific and Religious Knowledge Introduction 8. The Split Development of Scientific and Mystical Thinking over the Last Four Hundred Years 9. The Nature of Mysticism, Particularly as Applied to Psychosynthesis 10. The Influence of Plato 11. The Gnostic and the Neoplatonic Traditions 12. The Kabbalah and the Jewish Tradition 13. The Influence of Dante 14. The Alternative Mystical Tradition traced through the Renaissance and into the Modern Period 15. Religion and Mysticism at the Turn of the Nineteenth/Twentieth Century 16. The Nature of Science in Psychology and Psychotherapy 17. The Development of Psychotherapy and Dynamic Psychiatry: The Scientific Study of the Unconscious Part 3: Developments in the Twentieth Century Introduction 18. Psychosynthesis in the Context of Twentieth Century Developments in Psychotherapy 19. Psychosynthesis in Relation to Twentieth Century Mysticism 20. Summary and Conclusion: A Deeper Synthesis. Epilogue. Bibliography. Index.