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Indian psychology refers to an emerging scholarly and scientific subfield of psychology.Psychologists working in this field are retrieving the psychological ideas embedded in indigenous Indian religious and spiritual traditions and philosophies, and expressing these ideas in psychological terms that permit further psychological research and application.
For 15 years, until the end of 2015, he was editor of Psychological Studies, [5] [6] a journal of the National Academy of Psychology, India. [7] As of 2016, he was continuing as the special issue editor of Psychological Studies. [8] He has been one of the leaders of the emerging field of Indian psychology.
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Sen Gupta was born into a Bengali Baidya Brahmin family in Faridpur, India, in 1889, to Turini Charan and Muktakeshi Sen Gupta. [1] He attended Bengal National College, an educational institution that was founded as a means of challenging British hegemony in India by putting education exclusively under national control (i.e., achieving self-reliance through education).
The first law to govern mental health in India was the Indian Lunacy Act 1912, [33] which itself drew heavily from the English Lunatics Act 1845. [34] The Indian Psychiatric Society suggested a draft in 1950, however it was only given assent by the President in May 1987, and implemented in 1993 as the Mental Health Act 1987.
These are viewed as traces or temperament that evolves through the refinement of an individual inner consciousness and expressed personality, and is a form of "being-preparedness" in Vedantic psychology. [10] All physical, verbal and mental activity, according to the Vedanta school of Hinduism, creates Samskara, or traces inside a person.
Ashis Nandy (born 13 May 1937) is an Indian political psychologist, social theorist, futurist and critic. A trained clinical psychologist, Nandy has provided theoretical critiques of European colonialism, development, modernity, secularism, Hindutva, science, technology, nuclearism, cosmopolitanism, and utopia.
Few more asylums are also founded by British Government in 1857 in big cities of India. In 1859, Agra asylum was also founded by British Government. The Institute of Mental Health and Hospital Agra was established in September 1859, and renamed to Mental Hospital Agra in 1925. Previously it was managed under the provisions of Indian Lunacy Act ...