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020			_a9780198089421 _qpbk.
082			_a616.8910954 _bKAK
100			_aKakar, Sudhir _91554
245			_aShamans mystics and doctors : _ba psychological inquiry into India and its healing traditions
260			_aNew Delhi _bOxford University Press _c1982
300			_axiii, 310p.,
520			_a"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 sympathy, open-mindedness, and insight Sudhir Kakar has drawn from both his Eastern and Western backgrounds to show how the gulf that divides native healer from Western psychiatrist can be spanned.”—Rosemary Dinnage, New York Review of Books ”Each chapter describes the geographical and cultural context within which the healers work, their unique approach to healing mental illness, and . . . the philosophical and religious underpinnings of their theories compared with psychoanalytical theory.”—Choice"
650			_aMentally ill - Care _91555
650			_aHealing _91556
650			_aShamanism _91557
942			_cBK
999			_c7988 _d7988