Theoretical Psychology: The Meeting of East and West: Path in Psychology

1 Introduction.- Some Converging Trends.- Implications of the Development of Western Psychology as a “ Science”.- The Nature of Science and the Sociology of Knowledge.- The Cultural Relativity of Psychological Theories: A Perspective from Anthropology and Culture-and-Personality Studies.- Certain Criticisms and Limitations of the Sociology of Knowledge.- Notes.- 2 Search for Common Ground.- Assumptions regarding the Lawfulness of the Universe.- Assumptions about the Nature of Reality: Ontological Presuppositions.- Man’s Relation to Nature.- Assumptions about Human Nature.- The Assumption of Egoism and the Value of Individualism.- Assumptions about the Human Condition.- The Ideal Human Condition.- Notes.- 3 Consciousness: Some Western Views.- William James and his Concept of the “Stream of Consciousness”.- Structuralism: The Introspectionist Approach.- The Psychology without Consciousness: The Behaviorist Approach.- Psychology of the Unconscious: The Freudian Approach.- The Psychophysiological Approach: The Relationship between Mind and Brain.- The Phenomenological and Existential Approaches.- Notes.- 4 Consciousness: Two Indian Views.- The Yoga of Patañjali.- The Non-Dualist Ved?nta of ?ankara.- 5 Self and Identity.- Personality, Self, Identity.- Erik Erikson’s Theory of Identity Formation.- What Accounts for the Unity, Continuity and Sameness in Man?.- The Unity and Continuity of the Stream of Consciousness: Self as Knower.- 6 Overview and Prospect.- On Consciousness.- On the Nature of the Self.- On Cross-Cultural Exchange in Psychology: Problems and Prospects.- Notes.- References.- Author Index.