Psychologyमनोविज्ञान
Mind, culture, and the Indian human sciences
This strand approaches psychology as a human science shaped by cultural context, examining the emergence of psychoanalysis and psychology in colonial and postcolonial India, indigenous concepts of selfhood, and the discipline's engagement with caste, trauma, and community.
- 01
Colonial Psychoanalysis: Girindrasekhar Bose and the Indian Psychoanalytic Society
The founding of Indian psychoanalysis, its dialogue and disputes with Freud, and its distinct theory of the Oedipus wish.
5 concepts · 4 sources · 3 exercises
- 02
Indigenous Concepts of Selfhood and the Indigenization Debate
Debates over whether Indian psychology should build indigenous frameworks of self and mind rather than import Western constructs wholesale.
5 concepts · 4 sources · 3 exercises
- 03
Caste, Discrimination, and Psychological Well-Being
Psychological research on caste-based discrimination, stigma, stereotype threat, and mental health disparities in India.
5 concepts · 4 sources · 3 exercises
- 04
Collective Trauma and Memory: Psychology After Partition and Violence
How Indian psychology and psychoanalysis have approached collective trauma, memory, and intergenerational transmission following Partition and communal violence.
5 concepts · 4 sources · 3 exercises
- 05
The Schools of Psychology: Psychoanalysis, Behaviourism, Cognitivism, and Humanism
A comparative history of the major theoretical traditions that shaped modern psychology, from Freud's unconscious to the cognitive revolution.
5 concepts · 4 sources · 3 exercises
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Cross-Cultural Psychology and the WEIRD Sample Problem
How the discovery that most psychological research relies on a narrow, unrepresentative slice of humanity has reshaped debates over the universality of psychological findings.
5 concepts · 4 sources · 3 exercises
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Obedience, Prejudice, and the Replication Crisis in Social Psychology
How classic experiments on obedience, conformity, and intergroup conflict shaped understanding of collective violence, and how the replication crisis has forced a methodological reckoning.
6 concepts · 4 sources · 3 exercises