Shamans, Mystics, And Doctors: A Psychological Inquiry Into India And Its Healing Traditions

This major work of cultural interpretation provides a fascinating account of the many ways in which India's healing traditions deal with emotional disorder. Drawing on intensive fieldwork and his own psychoanalytic training and experience, Sudhir Kakar takes the reader on a journey through the healing temples, consultation rooms, vaids, meeting with shamans, tantriks, and gurus of mystical cults. With a new Prologue by the author, this Oxford India Perennials edition bears testimony to the book's enduring significance since it was first published in 1982.