Inner World: A Psycho-Analytic Study of Childhood and Society in India

By Sudhir Kakar

Book Overview

Feelings, impulses, wishes, and fantasies-the dynamic content of the inner world-occupy the deepest recesses of the psyche. It is through introspection and empathy, essential to psychotherapy, that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195613058
• ISBN13: 9780195613056
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 8.7"

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This is a remarkable attempt to build the foundations of Indian/Hindu psychiatry. It will touch a chord with anyone who has grown up in India, and is instructive for people seeking to understand how psychiatry and psychoanalysis translate to non-Western cultures.