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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.
Laboratory research at the University of Calcutta primarily focused on the areas of depth perception, psychophysics, and attention. [3] As a leading proponent of the scientific nature of psychological research, Sen Gupta was instrumental in the inclusion of psychology as a distinct division of the Indian Science Congress in 1923, and was elected president of the division in 1925.
For example, many Indian psychologists with Western training have incorporated their instruction to include aspects of Indian culture that aren’t necessarily relevant to Western psychology. They have learned to place more emphasis on extended family and community which is more suited to the societal norms of Indian culture than Western culture.
Vidyalankara Saligrama Krishna Ramachandra Rao (4 September 1925 – 2 February 2006 [2]) was an Indian author, Sanskrit scholar and professor of psychology. [3]His books, most of them in Kannada and English, deal with Indian culture, philosophy, art, music, and literature. [4]
Koneru Ramakrishna Rao (4 October 1932 – 9 November 2021) was an Indian philosopher who served as Chancellor of GITAM (Deemed To Be University), and as Chairman of GITAM school of Gandhian Studies, psychologist, parapsychologist, educationist, teacher, researcher and administrator.
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 ...
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Kakar was born on 25 July 1938 in Nainital, [3] a town in present-day Uttarakhand, India.He spent his early childhood near Sargodha, now in Pakistan [4] and also in Rohtak, where his father was an additional district magistrate during the British Raj and during the partition of India, and the family moved quite a bit from city to city.