📖 In Search of Self in India and Japan

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In Search of Self in India and Japan
By:Alan Roland
Published on 1988 by Princeton University Press

Drawing on work with Indian and Japanese patients, a prominent American psychoanalyst explores inner worlds that are markedly different from the Western psyche. A series of fascinating case studies illustrates Alan Roland's argument: the |familial self,| rooted in the subtle emotional hierarchical relationships of the family and group, predominates in Indian and Japanese psyches and contrasts strongly with the Western |individualized self.| In perceptive and sympathetic terms Roland describes the emotional problems that occur when Indians and Japanese encounter Western culture and the resulting successful integration of new patterns that he calls the |expanding self.| Of particular interest are descriptions of the special problems of women in changing society and of the paradoxical relationship of the |spiritual self| of Indians and Japanese to the |familial self.' Also described is Roland's own response to the broadening of his emotional and intellectual horizons as he talked to patients and supervised therapists in India and Japan. |As we were coming in for a landing to Bombay,| he writes, |the plane banked so sharply that when I supposedly looked down all I could see were the stars, while if I looked up, there were the lights of the city.| This is the |world turned upside down| that he describes so eloquently in this book. What he has learned will fascinate those who wish to deepen their understanding of a different way of being.

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