A. K. Ramanujan
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Adolescence
Ambivalence
Americans
Analytical psychology
Anxiety
Aunt
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Awareness
Bhakti
Career
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Child Rearing
Consciousness
Criticism
Cross-cultural
Culture of India
Deference
Dependency need
Developmental psychology
ego and super-ego
Emotional intimacy
Empathy
Enmeshment
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Etiquette
Extended family
Feeling
Gratification
Household
Id
Idealization
Individualism
Individuation
Interdependence
Internalization
Lifestyle (sociology)
Manisha
Marriage
Mirroring (psychology)
Morality
Mother
Mrs.
Narcissism
Oedipus complex
Phenomenon
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic theory
Psychoanalytic Therapy
Psychologist
Psychology
Psychopathology
Psychosexual development
Psychotherapy
Religion
Scientist
Self psychology
Self-concept
Self-esteem
Self-image
Shame
Sigmund Freud
Social science
Spouse
Swami Vivekananda
Symptom
The Other Hand
Thought
Transference
Upper middle class
Value (ethics)
Western culture
Westernization
World view
Product details
- ISBN 9780691024585
- Weight: 595g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Apr 1991
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Drawing on work with Indian and Japanese patients, a prominent American psychoanalyst explores inner worlds that are markedly different from the Western psyche. A series of fascinating case studies illustrates Alan Roland's argument: the "familial self," rooted in the subtle emotional hierarchical relationships of the family and group, predominates in Indian and Japanese psyches and contrasts strongly with the Western "individualized self." In perceptive and sympathetic terms Roland describes the emotional problems that occur when Indians and Japanese encounter Western culture and the resulting successful integration of new patterns that he calls the "expanding self." Of particular interest are descriptions of the special problems of women in changing society and of the paradoxical relationship of the "spiritual self" of Indians and Japanese to the "familial self." Also described is Roland's own response to the broadening of his emotional and intellectual horizons as he talked to patients and supervised therapists in India and Japan.
"As we were coming in for a landing to Bombay," he writes, "the plane banked so sharply that when I supposedly looked down all I could see were the stars, while if I looked up, there were the lights of the city." This is the "world turned upside down" that he describes so eloquently in this book. What he has learned will fascinate those who wish to deepen their understanding of a different way of being.
