Perspectives on Indigenous Psychology
| Preface | ||
| List of contributors |
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| Introduction Girishwar Misra & Ajit K. Mohanty |
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PART I: PSYCHOLOGICAL PARADIGM IN CONTEXT |
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| 01 | Demystifying scientism in mainstream pasychology Suneet Varma |
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| 02 | Constructionism: Some epistemic and methodological issues in psychology H. S. Asthana |
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| 03 | Psychology in India: A historical introduction Ajit K. Dalal |
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| 04 | Signification, culture and psychology R. S. Bhatnagar |
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| 05 | Ideology, problematics and indigenization B. Krishnamurthy |
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PART II – CONCERNS AND ISSUES IN INDIGENIZATION |
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| 06 | Indigenization in Psychology: The salience of identity in relevance Neena Kohli |
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| 07 | Indigenous psychology: As I see it Radha K. Naidu |
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| 08 | Indigenous: Handle with care Leela Krishnan |
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| 09 | Indigenization of psychological studies: Research agenda B. N. Puhan & F. M. Sahoo |
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PART III – EFFORTS TOWARDS INDIGENIZATION |
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| 10 | Knowing in the Indian tradition Girishwar Misra |
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| 11 | Human expertise and Guru-shishya approach to the acquisition of a skill G. C. Gupta |
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| 12 | Culture and social cognition: The Indian experience Girishwar Misra, Uday Jain & Tara Singh |
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| 13 | The concept of stress in the Indian tradition M. N. Palsane, S. N. Bhavsar, R. P. Goswami & G. W. Evans |
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| 14 | Bhagavad Gita and techniques of mental health Sarla Jawa |
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| 15 | An Indian perspective on emotions Uday Jain |
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| 16 | Typological conceptions in ancient Indian thought B. Krishnan |
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| 17 | Ayurvedic concepts of the purusha, dehaprakriti and sattvaprakriti C. B. Dwivedi |
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| 18 | The ontological pragmaticity of karmain the Bhagvad Gita: A mind to meditate and the meditative mind Sangeeta Menon |
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| 19 | Employees and organization in India: Need to move beyond American and Japanese models Rajen K. Gupta |
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| 20 | Self and identity Shanti Auluck |
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PART IV – EMERGING CONCERNS |
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| 21 | Problems and prospects for an indigenous psychology of India A. C. Paranjpe |
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| 22 | On the place of culture in psychological science Girishwar Misra & Kenneth J. Gergen |
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| 23 | Towards indigenization of psychology in India Jai B. P. Sinha |
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| References | ||
| Index | ||