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Psychoanalysis from the Indian Terroir: Emerging Themes in Culture, Family, and Childhood in India represents the best of Indian scholarship from emerging psychoanalytic thinkers and researchers on culture, family, politics and the future of India.
List of contents
Introduction to Psychoanalysis in the Indian Terroir by Manasi Kumar, Anup Dhar and Anurag Mishra
Part I: Mothers, Therapists, and Matricide
Chapter 1: When the Enthralled Mother Dreams: A Clinical and Cultural Composition by Amrita Narayanan
Chapter 2: Devi Possession at the Intersections of Religion, Culture and Psychoanalysis by Sabah Siddiqui and Bhargavi Davar
Chapter 3: Of Mothers and Therapists: Dreaming the Indian Infant by Urvashi Agarwal
Chapter 4: Myth, Misogyny and Matricide by Nilofer Kaul
Chapter 5: Sita Through the Time Warp: On the Ticklish Relationship Between Renunciation and Moral Narcissism in the Lives of Young Indian Women by Shifa Haq
Part II: Faith, Religion and Violence
Chapter 6: Terrors to Expansions: A Journey Mediated Through Faith by Shalini Masih
Chapter 7: Only Hindu also the Patient, Only Muslim also the Therapist: Recovering the 'Historical Other' by Zehra Mehdi
Chapter 8: Disaster Diaries: Riots Affected Children in Ahmedabad and Hyderabad by Atreyee Sen and Manasi Kumar
Part III: Cultural Identity and Indian Imagination
Chapter 9: Two Cultures? : Frontiers of Faith in Yoga and Psychoanalysis by Ajeet Mathur
Chapter 10: Psychoanalysis, Culture and the Cultural Unconscious by Sudhir Kakar
Chapter 11: Imagining The Real: An Essay on Sudhir Kakar's "Culture and Psyche": A Personal Journey by Alfred Margulies
Chapter 12: As Psychoanalysis Travels: Mansi Kumar, Anup Dhar, Anurag Mishra in conversation with Sudhir Kakar by Manasi Kumar, Anup Dhar, Anurag Mishra, and Sudhir Kakar
Chapter 13 Genealogies of Aboriginalization by Anup Dhar
About the author
Manasi Kumar is senior lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Nairobi and research fellow at the University College London and University of Cape Town.
Anup Dhar is professor in the School of Human Studies at Ambedkar University, Delhi, and director of the Centre for Development Practice (CDP).
Anurag Mishra is adjunct faculty in the School of Human Studies at Ambedkar University, Delhi, and chief of the psychoanalytic unit at Fortis Healthcare.
Summary
Psychoanalysis from the Indian Terroir: Emerging Themes in Culture, Family, and Childhood in India represents the best of Indian scholarship from emerging psychoanalytic thinkers and researchers on culture, family, politics and the future of India.
