Psychology in the Indian Tradition

• Main Authors: Rao, K. Ramakrishna (Author), Paranjpe, Anand C. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Philosophy, Asian.; Religion and culture.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Cross Cultural Psychology.; Non-Western Philosophy.; Sociology of Culture.

This authoritative volume, written by two well-known psychologist-philosophers, presents a model of the person and its implications for psychological theory and practice. Professors Ramakrishna Rao and Anand Paranjpe draw the contours of Indian psychology, describe the methods of study, explain cruc...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Scope, Substance and Methods of Study.- Chapter 2. Cultural Climate and Conceptual Roots of Indian Psychology
• Chapter 3. Centrality of Consciousness.- Chapter 4. Mind-Body Complex.- Chapter 5. Self, Person and Personality.- Chapter 6. Cognition, Emotion and Volition.- Chapter 7. Applied Indian Psychology.- Chapter 8. Meditation and Applied Yoga
• Chapter 9. Self-Realization: Illustrative Case Studies.- Chapter 10. Personal and Social Transformation Gandhi’s Psychology of Nonviolence.