Mental Health and Well-Being: An Indian Psychology Perspective

The book analyses mental health, well-being, and their interdependence through Indian perspectives. It offers critical insights on mastering wellness, stress, and coping, suffering and healing, and achieving work-life balance.

Describing key concepts of the Indian philosophical thought with contemporary implications, the volume focuses on explaining the how mental health and mental well-being are correlated. It examines the dynamic interplay of biological, social, psychological, ecological, cultural, religious, and spiritual factors that affect individuals in their everyday lives and act as contributing factors to our illness or wellness. The book also explores in-depth Indian traditions of spirituality and their significant contributions to mental well-being, including discussions on concepts found in Ayurveda and Yoga.

This book will be of interest to students, researchers, and teachers of psychology, applied psychology, clinical and counselling psychology, and wellness. It will also be very helpful for academicians, mental health professionals, counsellors, and those working in health and wellbeing industries.

Navin Kumar is a professor of psychology at the Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, Delhi University, India. With twenty-five years of teaching experience, he is the author of Criminal Psychology, published in 2015, Media Psychology published in 2021, Counselling Psychology 2021. He is executive editor of Academia, an international multi-disciplinary biannual journal in social sciences, humanities, and languages.

He is a member of the Under-graduate and Post-graduate Board of Studies, Ch. Devilal University Sirsa, Haryana, and a member of the Board of Research Studies for Ph.D. Students at Amity University Noida, IILM University, Gurgaon, and Manav Rachna University, Faridabad. He has served as a member of M.Phil. Clinical Psychology Committee at IBHAS Dilshad Garden, Delhi. Dr Kumar has also been a member of UGC Learning Outcome based Curriculum Framework (LOCF) for Psychology, 2018, and a member of the Curriculum Committee, National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS). He has conducted training workshops for Delhi-Police, CRPF, NTPC, CISF, Power Grid, and has previously been invited as a visiting faculty at National Law University, Delhi.

Dr Kumar has supervised twenty Ph.D. scholars as a guide/co-guide from Delhi University, Jamia Millia Islamia, and Amity University. He has presented several research papers, including a research paper at ICAP Paris, and has published more than twenty research articles in national and international journals. He has also completed several research projects with ICSSR, UGC, Delhi-University, and Delhi-police, and been a coordinator for UGC and PG Pathshala for the subject Criminal Psychology (2017).