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...

It is 1925 and India's struggle for independence is in disarray, impeded by factionalism among its leaders and rising incidents of unrest across the country. Meanwhile, having withdrawn himself from active politics, Mahatma Gandhi is in an ashram immersed in what he considers the most important undertaking of his life--the creation of a community that is wholly dedicated to the highest standards of self-discipline, tolerance, and austerity.

Into this world comes a young British woman named Madeline, the daughter of a British admiral. Madeline has set her heart on becoming Gandhi's...

Sudhir Kakar, der bekannteste Psychoanalytiker Indiens, untersucht ein Phnomen, das lange Zeit in der Psychoanalyse vernachlssigt wurde: das Zusammenspiel von Psyche und Geist. Er betrachtet dieses Zusammenspiel in unterschiedlichen Kontexten: durch Heilung emotionaler Strungen, in religisen Ritualen und in den Leben von drei bekannten spirituellen Meistern - dem im 16. Jahrhundert lebenden tibetisch-buddhistischen Drukpa Kunley, dem indischen Guru Bhagwan oder Osho und Mahatma Gandhi.

This novel is the story of the great sage Vatsyayan, author of Kamasutra, the definitive book on sex. The life of this Yogi who meditates on the life of the God of Love (Kamadeva) is memorably described in the book Kamayogi. Notings on feminine sexuality by Vatsyayan create upheavals in Kamayogi's readings, set against the socio-cultural, economic and historicla backdrop of the Gupta period in Indian history. A special creative work by Sudheer Kakkar. Trans: Suresh M G

Second, in contemporary Western societies, marked by structural atheism, people look at literature, the arts and mass media to study their depiction and reading of traditionally religious questions of disease, death and the Beyond.