1st Edition
Religion and Psychoanalysis in India Critical Clinical Practice
Acknowledgements Map 1. Introduction 2. On Method 3. Ghosts from the past 4. Woman or Goddess? 5. Prayers, pills and politics 6. In Lieu of a Conclusion Glossary References Index
Biography
Sabah Siddiqui is a full-time funded doctoral researcher in the School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, UK.
‘Uniquely timely scholarship demonstrating how the psychiatry/faith relation provides a key lens to evaluate the contemporary Indian state. This elegant and original study illuminates how science and modernity configure and consolidate psychologies of gender and violence through contested claims to and of tradition.’ Erica Burman, Professor of Education, University of Manchester, UK
‘This book is an invaluable re-examination of the possible appositeness of two otherwise hyper-separated discourses, that of faith (usually but unfairly cocooned within discourses of religion) and that of healing (usually and unfairly reduced to medicalized exegeses), in secular scientistic worldviews dominating the current space of mental health. By inaugurating questions of faith in healing traditions and questions of healing in traditions of faith the book opens an altogether new window to engagement with questions of mental health in India as also elsewhere.’ Anup Dhar, Ambedkar University Delhi, India.
