Introduction to the Members

Hai Everyone,

Though we have undergone three years of formal training in Psychology, we have focussed only on the western psyche.... and left behind Indian psyche..... which we all members intend to explore in this blog Chithana.

My interest lies is Spirituality linked to Psychology and how our ancient Indian health professionals treated mental illness before the advent of Western interventions in to India. And also on the Question of Reason and Non- Reason and the question on how Non- Reason is merely reduced to ‘Madness’ and ‘Breakdown’. My interest also takes off with a question of the patient- client in the psychiatric clinic in relation to how the institution of mental health refers to Non- Reason?

i wish all the members good luck and a sizzling move towards our goal.

G.M.Subhasree

About me..

Hello all! I'm Siddesh :)

I don't know EXACTLY where my interests lie. Although, obviously, they do so within the broad realm of Indian Thought.

I seek a refreshing change from all the occidental information which we, at least I, have been blindly absorbing and look towards something which can be applied today to Indians. The first problem which i will encounter is, in defining 'India' - In the days of yore, the conception of 'Bharat' was different from what we perceive 'India' to be today. A related problem will come in actually trying to apply this 'Indian' philosophy and a concept of psyche derived from this philosophy (if that is possible), whatever it may be, to today's 'Indians' - for, as I am seeing and experiencing, there is no ONE India, nor a concept of a homogeneous Indian.

Anyway, it would be interesting to see how I delve into this realm, what, and how much, I am able to comprehend, and how I take it forward (if at all).

Introduction to members.

"No knowledge is new knowledge". Pretty loaded statement, that. It's also a very compelling claim.

In the endeavour of making scientific discoveries, we have continually been moving further and further away from the very wise (oh yes!) teachings of our ancients, remaining more or less convinced of their obsolescence. In recent years, a lot of interest has been revived in the works contained in ancient texts and their interpretation.

Nothing excites me more than launching into an investigation as to the "newness" of the knowledge that forms the basis of modern day psychology by doing as much thorough a reading of the ancient Indian texts (especially the Upanishads and the Vedas) alongside the works of the contemporary experts in the field, as a regular 20-something PG student with sinfully capricious interests can possibly do.

Cheers,
Jyothi Ravichandran

INTRODUCTION TO THE MEMBERS
Hi, Chinthana is a bold endeavour because despite having studied three years of psychology, all we know is western psyche..this blog i think will sensitize us not only to Indian psyche but Indian notions and philosophies in general .. so brilliant !!
i am really interested in indian psychoanalysis and i would like to make my contributions to the blog in this area.. this of course involves exploring texts such as the yoga sutra so its not exclusively psychology ..
this will be fun
- Hargun

Introduction to members

Hitha Srivatsan
MSc Psychology (Clinical)
Christ University, Bangalore.

My interests are wide and varied. My intent in contributing to this blog is to help me explore this increasingly popular avenue among a company of the like-minded. I certainly hope to learn from as much as (if not more) I contribute to Chinthana.

introduction to members

kiran kumar ctl
msc clinical psychology, Christ univeristy, Bangalore

I am interested in understanding the indian rural society and folk psychology, reason behind such topic is,firstly hardly there is any research conducted,the past literature provides an overview about the vedic and mythological texts. secondly understanding of folk system of indian society provides us an knowledge about the concrete indian minds

The Opening Note

We the students of M. Sc Clinical Psychology, Christ University, Bangalore , have created Chinthana... Rediscovering the quintessential Indian psyche. Our agenda is to discover Indian thoughts and minds. We had a curiosity and enthusiasm to 'know' and 'understand' about ourselves, our philosophy and our multicultural Indian system. Questions on Indian culture, philosophy, society and the line drawn by the western world about the psychology of Indians were the reason for our intiative to create a blog and to step up to rediscover the Indian psychology.
Chinthana as a word means to think or rethink, and fittingly, we will be rethinking Indian minds to explore new knowledge or where necessary, redefine the Indian mind or what Indian in Indian is. We will be posting articles reviewed by us as well as our thoughts on our specific areas of interest. Each member has chosen different sectors of the multicultural Indian society such as culture, asceticism, religion, supernatural power, rural society and folk societies. So, here we go...!