Shamans, Mystics and Doctors: A Psychological Enquiry into India and Its Healing Traditions

Boston: Beacon Press, [1983]. Second printing. Paperback. 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches; 216 by 140 mm. x, 306 pages. Softcover, with light quarter-inch scuff on spine and eighth-inch tear to edge of rear cover, but otherwise in fine shape. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1982. From the rear cover: The author, a noted Indian psychoanalyist, examines "ancient Indian healing tradition--embodied in the rituals of shamans, the teachings of gurus, and the precepts of the school of medicine known as Ayurveda." The New York Review of Books said, "With extraordinary sympathy, open-mindedness, and insight, Kakar . . . shows how the gulf that divides native healer from Western psychiatrist can be spanned." Item #290
ISBN: 0807029033

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