An Introduction to Psychology: Global Outlook, Indian Perspectives

This textbook provides an essential, contextually sensitive and culturally relevant grounding in Psychology that sets the base for future studies. Replete with discussions on current themes and debates in the discipline, its interdisciplinary linkages are relevant in the current times in terms of their contributions and application.

This volume addresses the overarching questions of the discipline, with chapters organised to discuss psychological concepts, theories and principles in the light of cultural world views, where culture and the psyche are interdependent. It discusses the indigenous views of self and consciousness as well as contemporary applications of psychology in the global world.

This book, designed for a global readership, would be useful to the students and teachers of Psychology, Applied Psychology, and Sociology, and Social Work, Public Health, Gender and Women Studies.

Shilpa Ashok Pandit is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University. Shilpa is a Fulbright and Chevening Scholar and is deeply interested in questions on gender, youth, mental health and health per se, self and consciousness and the Indian theory of Rasa as well-being. She is a co-founder of the Dreampath Foundation, which works with youth in Karnataka (Dream Path Foundation).