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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).
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.
He later returned to the University of Delhi. In December 1933 he met Jung when the latter visited Calcutta for the Indian Science Congress. [1] Sen went on to become President of the psychology section of the Indian Science Congress, and was also a recipient of the Eastern-Western psychology lecture award of the Swami Pranavananda Psychology ...
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.
He sent the thesis to Freud, [3] which led to a correspondence between the two men and to the formation of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society in 1922 in Calcutta. Of the fifteen original members, nine were college teachers of psychology or philosophy and five belonged to the medical corps of the Indian Army, including two British psychiatrists.