Shamans, mystics, and doctors

By Sudhir Kakar

Subjects: Care, Mental Healing, Therapeutics, Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric, Therapy, Traditional Medicine, Mental illness, Medicine, magic, mystic, and spagiric, Mentally ill, Psychosomatic Medicine, Shamanism, Treatment, Mysticism, India, Healing, Mental Disorders

Description: 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.