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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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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
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.
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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,
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Sudhir
with Katharina Poggendorf Kakar
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The 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 is Mad and Divine: Spirit and Psyche in the Modern World.
His
work in progress includes the novel "The
Crimson Throne"on the last years of
the Mughal emperor Shahjahan's reign.The novel
will be published by Penguin-Viking in June, 2010.
An edited book of essays On Dreams and Dreaming
is slated for publication by Viking in December,
2010 and a book of memoirs Off the Couch
will be published in February, 2011.
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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