Psychology in India, Volume 4

Chapter 1

 

* I wish to acknowledge the reflective participation and active contribution of Prof. Ashok Nagpal, my friend and colleague, in enabling this paper to acquire its present form. I also thank my friend and colleague, Dr Anita Ghai for taking out time from her busy schedule to go through the draft of this writing in great detail. Her comments and observations have enriched the overall quality of this effort. The reflections of Dr U. Vindhya are also gratefully acknowledged.

1. At the global front, as is more than well known, the psychoanalytic tradition began with the pioneering efforts of Dr Sigmund Freud, a Viennese neurologist in the last decade of the 19th century. In the lifetime of the founder itself, psychoanalysis grew into ...