Title: Shamans, mystics, and doctors
Subtitle: a psychological inquiry into India and its healing traditions
Description: 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.
Subjects: Mentally ill, Healing, Care, India, Psychosomatic Medicine, Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric, Mental illness, Therapeutics, Treatment, Shamanism, Mysticism, Traditional Medicine, Mental Disorders, Therapy, Mental Healing, Medicine, Psychiatry, History
Places: India