Relevance of ancient Indian wisdom to modern mental health – A few examples

The ancient Indian concepts and paradigms relating to mental health are holistic and cover aspects that have been neglected by the modern mental health literature. The latter can borrow, study, and incorporate them in their text books to advantage. The current trend in mental health research is heav...

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Autor principal: Shamasundar, C.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Culture and Psychiatry
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19742213
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.42404
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spelling pubmed-27383322009-09-08 Relevance of ancient Indian wisdom to modern mental health – A few examples Shamasundar, C. Indian J Psychiatry Culture and Psychiatry The ancient Indian concepts and paradigms relating to mental health are holistic and cover aspects that have been neglected by the modern mental health literature. The latter can borrow, study, and incorporate them in their text books to advantage. The current trend in mental health research is heavily biased in favour of biological aspects of psychological phenomena neglecting the basic entity, the mind. Correction of this partisan tilt is urgently needed. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2738332/ /pubmed/19742213 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.42404 Text en © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Relevance of ancient Indian wisdom to modern mental health – A few examples
title Relevance of ancient Indian wisdom to modern mental health – A few examples
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title_full_unstemmed Relevance of ancient Indian wisdom to modern mental health – A few examples
title_short Relevance of ancient Indian wisdom to modern mental health – A few examples
title_sort relevance of ancient indian wisdom to modern mental health – a few examples
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19742213
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.42404
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