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An edition of Shamans, mystics, and doctors: a psychological inquiry into India and its healing traditions (1982)

Shamans, mystics, and doctors

a psychological inquiry into India and its healing traditions

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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.

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University of Chicago Press
Language
English
Pages
306

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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

Places

India

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Shamans, mystics, and doctors: a psychological inquiry into India and its healing traditions
1991, University of Chicago Press
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1984, Unwin
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1983, Beacon Press
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1982, Knopf
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-297) and index.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1982.

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616.89/00954
Library of Congress
RC451.I6 K35 1991, RC451.I6K35 1991

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 306 p. :
Number of pages
306

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OL1863075M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0226422798
LCCN
90020821
OCLC/WorldCat
22660379
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207927
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385272

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