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Sudhir
Kakar is a psychoanalyst and writer who lives in Goa, India.
Kakar
took his Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Gujarat University,
his Master’s degree (Diplom-Kaufmann) in business economics from Mannheim in Germany
and his doctorate in economics from Vienna
before beginning his training in psychoanalysis at the Sigmund-Freud
Institute in Frankfurt,
Germany
in 1971. Between 1966 and 1971, Sudhir Kakar was a Lecturer in General
Education at Harvard University, Research Associate at Harvard Business School
and Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Indian Institute of
Management, Ahmedabad.
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After
returning to India
in 1975 , Dr. Kakar set up a practice as a psychoanalyst in Delhi where he was also the Head of
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
at Indian Institute of Technology. He has been
40th Anniversary Senior Fellow at the Centre
for Study of World Religions at Harvard (2001-02),
a visiting professor at the universities of
Chicago (1989-93), McGill (1976-77), Melbourne
(1981), Hawaii (1998) and Vienna (1974-75) and
a Fellow at the Institutes of Advanced Study,
Princeton and Berlin. Since 1994, he is Adjunct
Professor of Leadership at INSEAD in Fontainbleau, France.
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A
leading figure in the fields of cultural psychology
and the psychology of religion, as well as a novelist,
Dr. Kakar’s person and work have been profiled
in The New York Times, Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine,
Neue Zuricher Zeitung, Die Zeit and Le Nouvel Observateur,
which listed him as one of the world's 25 major thinkers.
In a book to be published in August 2010, the journalists
of the leading German weekly Die Zeit portrayed
Sudhir Kakar as one of the 21 important thinkers for
the 21st century. Dr. Kakar's many honors include the
Kardiner Award of Columbia
University, Boyer Prize for Psychological Anthropology
of the American Anthropological Association, Germany’s
Goethe Medal, Rockefeller Residency, McArthur Fellowship
and Distinguished Service Award of Indo-American Psychiatric
Association. He is a member of the New York Academy
of Sciences and the Academie Universelle des Cultures,France.
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Sudhir
Kakar’s seventeen books of non-fiction and
four of fiction, include The Inner World
(now in its 16th printing since its first publication
in 1978), Shamans, Mystics and Doctors,Tales
of Love, Sex and Danger,Intimate Relations, The
Analyst and the Mystic, The Colors of Violence,Culture
and Psyche, The Indians: Portrait of a People,
(with Wendy Doniger), a new translation of
the Kamasutra for Oxford world Classics
and Mad and Divine: Spirit and Psyche in the
Modern World. He is also the author of the
novels The Ascetic of Desire, Ecstasy, Mira
and Mahatma, The Crimson Throne and the editor
of Indian Love Stories. An edited volume
on Dreams and Dreaming,and a book of
memoirs Off the Couch will be published
in the spring of 2011. His books have been translated
into twenty languages around the world.
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Sudhir
with Katharina Poggendorf Kakar
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Sudhir
Kakar is married to Katharina,
a writer and a scholar of comparative religions.
He has two children, a son Rahul who is in financial
services, and a daughter Shveta, a lawyer, both
in New
York.
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