| Titel: | Psychology, Mental Health and Yoga: Essays on Sri Aurobindo's Psychological Thought Implications of Yoga for Mental Health |
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| Autor: | Dalal, A. S. |
| Mediengruppe: | book |
| Herausgeber: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | --- |
| Jahr: | 1991 |
| Band: | --- |
| Heft: | --- |
| Seiten: | 166 |
| Sprache: | English; englisch |
| Abstract: | (from the preface) The essays brought together in this book appeared at first in the annual numbers of "Sri Aurobindo Circle" between 1983 and 1990. Since the essays were written as independent articles published at long intervals rather than as a connected and closely-knit series, several ideas and references to literature, including quotations, were repeated. In the present collection of the essays undue repetitions have been removed wherever this could be done without [sic] major revisions. (preface); The purpose of this book is to present some salient features of Sri Aurobindo's psychological thought and its implications for mental health in order to bring out some points of convergence, as also of divergence, between psychology and mental health on the one hand, and yoga on the other. (preface); Three main categories of readers have been kept in view in writing these essays: students and practitioners of Sri Aurobindo's yoga who have an interest in modern psychology and in what today goes by the name of mental health; secondly students and teachers of psychology who wish to have an introduction to Sri Aurobindo's psychological thought and its bearing on mental health; finally, persons interested in the interface between modern psychology and mental health on one hand and yoga on the other—yoga constructed broadly as a consciousness discipline, that is, as a psycho-transformative system for the attainment of a more evolved state of consciousness. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved) (preface); (from the preface) The essays brought together in this book appeared at first in the annual numbers of 'Sri Aurobindo Circle' between 1983 and 1990. Since the essays were written as independent articles published at long intervals rather than as a connected and closely-knit series, several ideas and references to literature, including quotations, were repeated. In the present collection of the essays undue repetitions have been removed wherever this could be done without [sic] major revisions. /// The purpose of this book is to present some salient features of Sri Aurobindo's psychological thought and its implications for mental health in order to bring out some points of convergence, as also of divergence, between psychology and mental health on the one hand, and yoga on the other. /// Three main categories of readers have been kept in view in writing these essays: students and practitioners of Sri Aurobindo's yoga who have an interest in modern psychology and in what today goes by the name of mental health; secondly students and teachers of psychology who wish to have an introduction to Sri Aurobindo's psychological thought and its bearing on mental health; finally, persons interested in the interface between modern psychology and mental health on one hand and yoga on the other--yoga constructed broadly as a consciousness discipline, that is, as a psycho-transformative system for the attainment of a more evolved state of consciousness. |