Shamans, mystics, and doctors
a psychological inquiry into India and its healing traditions
About this book
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.
Subjects
- care
- healing
- history
- india
- medicine
- medicine, magic, mystic, and spagiric
- mental disorders
- mental healing
- mental illness
- mentally ill
- mysticism
- psychiatry
- psychosomatic medicine
- shamanism
- therapeutics
- therapy
- traditional medicine
- treatment