DYNAMIC PSYCHIATRY FROM INDIAN CULTURAL-PERSPECTIVE

The author describes the similarity between the Indian cultural perspe ktive - more precisely the hinduistic - and Ammons Dynamic Psychiatry. In order to do so he first shows the parts of Indian psyche, their ai ms and the way how to reach their goals. Furthermore he shows the Indi an ideas of health and healing which is quite different to the common European concept. The conclusion is that the Indian culture is more cl ose to Dynamic Psychiatry than to other western theories about identit y, personal structure, health, and diseases with subsequent possibilit y of mutual enriching.