Shamanism and Psychology in Ancient Greece and India: The Evolution of Psyche

This book offers a historical introduction to psychology. It investigates the evolutionary origins of our capacity to practice psychology, including its language and the cultural containers in which it can emerge, such as those of ancient Greece and ancient India.

Richard Valentine is a member of the British Psychological Society and Associate Fellow of the Kirkby Laing Centre for Public Theology, a research institute in Cambridge, UK. From an academic background in philosophy and natural sciences, and a long career in education, he retrained in psychology. He has since worked in occupational psychology, developing profiling products for careers counselling and mentoring, and in higher education as a researcher, consultant and broadcaster for the induction of international students. He has published on policy in higher education in physics, psychology and religious studies. He lives on the coast of Cumbria, UK.