| Titel: | Prologue: Introducing Indian Psychology |
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| Autor: | Rao, K. Ramakrishna |
| Mediengruppe: | chapter |
| Herausgeber: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | --- |
| Jahr: | 2008 |
| Band: | --- |
| Heft: | --- |
| Seiten: | 1-18 |
| Sprache: | English |
| Abstract: | (from the chapter) There is much in the Indian tradition that is of great relevance to important concerns of psychology in general and psychology as practised in India in particular. Indian psychology has the necessary conceptual ingredients and theoretical recipes for baking a wholesome psychology that we can all enjoy. It has the potential to emerge as a full-fledged system for a more inclusive understanding of human nature, for promoting human potentials much farther, and for the transformation of the person to function more altruistically than is the case within the current guiding paradigm of psychological study and research. For example, Yoga-Sūtras is one of the foundational texts of Indian psychology. Patañjali's aphorisms contain the architectonic for the inclusive edifice of Indian psychology that embraces in one fold the secular and the sacred, the transactional and the transcendental. This magical synthesis of science and spirituality is something the world needs. One can make an equally strong case for some of the Buddhist writings and insights as the ground for a new psychology. Appropriately studied and judiciously pursued, with deep scholarship and due methodological rigour and discipline, Indian psychology has the potential to be the forerunner of future psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved) (chapter) |