Hanuman Complex And its Resolution : An Illustration of Psychotherapy from Indian mythology

The rich heritage of Indian mythology has been very little explored and used in psychotherapy in India. The present article deals with the story of Hanuman. How he lost the knowledge about his power to fly due to a childhood curse by Rishis and how he regained his powers when reminded by Jambavan du...

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Autor principal: Wig, N N
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2912672/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21206772
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description The rich heritage of Indian mythology has been very little explored and used in psychotherapy in India. The present article deals with the story of Hanuman. How he lost the knowledge about his power to fly due to a childhood curse by Rishis and how he regained his powers when reminded by Jambavan during a crucial mission in search of Queen Sita, is the subject of author′s description of Hanuman complex and its resolution. The author has often used this story in helping patients in psychotherapy as well as in teaching medical doctors and trainees in psychiatry. A plea is made for wider use of stories from Indian mythology in psychiatric practice.
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spelling pubmed-29126722011-01-04 Hanuman Complex And its Resolution : An Illustration of Psychotherapy from Indian mythology Wig, N N Indian J Psychiatry Special Article The rich heritage of Indian mythology has been very little explored and used in psychotherapy in India. The present article deals with the story of Hanuman. How he lost the knowledge about his power to fly due to a childhood curse by Rishis and how he regained his powers when reminded by Jambavan during a crucial mission in search of Queen Sita, is the subject of author′s description of Hanuman complex and its resolution. The author has often used this story in helping patients in psychotherapy as well as in teaching medical doctors and trainees in psychiatry. A plea is made for wider use of stories from Indian mythology in psychiatric practice. Medknow Publications 2004 /pmc/articles/PMC2912672/ /pubmed/21206772 Text en Copyright: © 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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