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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.
After
returning to India in 1975 , Dr. Kakar set up |
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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. |
A
well-known 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 some of world’s
leading newspapers such as The New York Times, Le Monde,
Frankfurter Allgemeine, Neue Zuricher Zeitung, Die Zeit
and Le Nouvel Observateur,
which listed him one of 25 major thinkers of the world.
His many honors include the Kardiner Award of Columbia
University,
Boyer Prize for Psychological Anthropology of the American
Anthropological Association, Germany’s Goethe Medal, Distinguished Service Award of Indo-American Psychiatric Association, Fellowship of National Academy of Psychology,
the Bhabha and Nehru Fellowships and the National Fellowship
in Psychology of the Indian Council of Social Science
Research.. He is a member of the New York Academy of
Sciences, International
Psychoanalytical Association and the Academie Universelle
des Cultures in Paris.
Sudhir
Kakar’s sixteen 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,
The
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Sudhir
with Katharina Poggendorf Kakar
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Analyst
and the Mystic, Culture and Psyche, The Colors of
Violence as also the novels The Ascetic
of Desire, Ecstasy and Mira and the Mahatma. His
books have been translated into twenty languages
around the world.
His most recent book, simultaneously published in India and Germany in Spring 2008, is Mad and Divine: Spirit and Psyche in the Modern World.
Sudhir
Kakar is married to Katharina, a writer and a scholar
of comparative religions. He has two children, a
son Rahul who is with SwissRe and a daughter Shveta,
a lawyer, who works for Skadden, Arps, both
in New York.
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