Many studies in neuroscience show us psychosynthesis in action (without calling it that) in all its important aspects. This evolution is due in great part to advances in techniques of investigating the brain itself, in particular brain imaging, which allows scientists to observe ongoing cerebral activity, thus enabling them to study correlations between subjective states and physiological events.
As a consequence of this upheaval, we are witnessing changes and radical revisions that would have been unthinkable in earlier times, and which have radically altered and amplified the scientific image of human nature. This new development is part of a vaster tendency: whereas psychotherapeutic practice and neurophysiological research were in the past largely strangers to one another, now we find communication and convergence between the two worlds. Now, a posteriori, comes hard experimental confirmation of its principles. The paradox is that psychosynthesis, which focusses on the individual's uniqueness, has always been based on soft, subjective evidence: the story of individual and group sessions, and the outcome of various techniques and exercises. Recent developments in neuroscience research have highlighted a new and paradoxical fact: the principles that Roberto Assagioli and his pupils have enunciated in the last hundred years now find a precise correspondence in the data and models of neuroscience. (first published in:AAP Psychosynthesis Quarterly, Vol1 No.3.
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