Shamans, Mystics, and Doctors: A Psychological Inquiry into India and Its Healing Traditions - Couverture rigide

Kakar, Sudhir

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0394522400 ISBN 13 : 9780394522401

Editeur : Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1982

Synopsis

Book by Kakar Sudhir

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 their theories compared with psychoanalytical theory". -Choice

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Date d'édition: 1982
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0394522400
• ISBN 13: 9780394522401
• Reliure: Relié
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible