Psychagogia

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The name of my practice refers to the ancient notion of psychagogy, which in the Platonic tradition meant the “guiding of the soul” – the art of accompanying a person in discovering truth about themselves and in moving toward a richer inner life.

Within the Jungian tradition in which I work, this concept takes on an even deeper meaning. The soul is understood here as the totality of the psyche – encompassing both what is conscious and what lies hidden in the unconscious. The therapeutic process can thus be seen as psychagogy: a way of accompanying the soul in its own movement toward integration and transformation.

The symbolic image from the Rosarium Philosophorum is of a significant importance to me. It depicts the union of opposites – king and queen – from which something new and healing is born. This mirrors what takes place in the therapeutic relationship: within dialogue and mutual listening, different aspects of the psyche come into contact, and through their confrontation the possibility of change may emerge.

For me, psychagogy is therefore a metaphor for therapy itself – not as directing the soul or prescribing its path, but as creating the conditions in which it may find its own way.