Shamans, Mystics and Doctors A Psychological Inquiry into India and Its Healing Traditions

Name: Shamans, Mystics and Doctors A Psychological Inquiry into India and Its Healing Traditions
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ISBN: 9780226422794

ISBN-10: 0226422798

ISBN-13: 9780226422794

Edition: 1990

Authors: Sudhir Kakar

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Sudhir Kakar, a psychoanalyst and scholar, brilliantly illuminates the ancient healing traditions of India embodied in the rituals of shamans, the teachings of gurus, and the precepts of the school of medicine known as Ayurveda. "With extraordinary sympathy, open-mindedness, and insight Sudhir Kakar has drawn from both his Eastern and Western backgrounds to show how the gulf that divides native healer from Western psychiatrist can be spanned."--Rosemary Dinnage, New York Review of Books "Each chapter describes the geographical and cultural context within which the healers work, their unique approach to healing mental illness, and . . . the philosophical and religious underpinnings of…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/9/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 316
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.46" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction



Local and Folk Traditions



Soul Knowledge and Soul Force: The Pir of Patteshah Dargah



Lord of the Spirit World



Other Shamans



Mystical Traditions



The Path of the Saints



Tantra and Tantric Healing



Cooling Breezes: The Cult of Mataji



Medical Traditions



Indian Medicine and Psychiatry: Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives on Ayurveda



The Good Doctor of Jharsetli



Epilogue: Healing and Culture


Notes


Index