A noted psychoanalyst reports and interprets his extensive fieldwork on the ways in which India's healing traditions--the shaman rituals, the teachings of gurus, and the Ayurveda--deal with mental illness
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Sudhir Kakar 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.'Each chapter describes the geographical and culture 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.'
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