Shamans, Mystics and Doctors: A Psychological Inquiry into India and its Healing Traditions by Sudhir Kakar

Shamans, Mystics and Doctors: A Psychological Inquiry into India and its Healing Traditions

Sudhir Kakar

316 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction psychology religion reflective medium-paced
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Sudhir Kakar, a psychoanalyst and scholar, brilliantly illuminates the ancient healing traditions of India embodied in the rituals of shamans, the teachings of gurus, and the precepts of the school of medicine known as Ayurveda."With extraordinary...

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