Self and Identity in Modern Psychology and Indian Thought

From: Canadian Psychology | Date: August 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

ANAND C. PARANJPE

Self and Identity in Modern Psychology and Indian Thought New York: Plenum Press, 1998, 416 pp. (ISBN 0-306-45844-6, US$69.50, Hardcover)

Reviewed by THOMAS TEO and NANDITA NAUTIYAL

This book is without a doubt an exemplary philosophical-psychological achievement, the result of extensive, sophisticated, and enlightened research. Paranjpe analyzes and compares, based on knowledge of the epistemological, ontological, and ethical foundaLions of psychology in both the West and India, the problem of person, self, and identity. This is a significant book, not only for the field ...

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