Applied Indian Psychology

Rao, K. Ramakrishna; Paranjpe, Anand C.

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“…Indian psychology is situated in the cultural and social context of the Indian tradition, as Western psychology has developed over centuries under the influence of the European culture and society followed by the American. Search for knowledge, whether in psychology or other disciplines, is unavoidably a social enterprise (Rao & Paranjpe, 2015, p. 37), having been impacted by trends. Like working memory, ideologies inform everyday behavior as a partly visible guiding force.…”

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“…For instance, in Hindu ideology, desh , kaal , and patra (time, place, and person) are seen as the minimal conditions necessary to understand or appreciate and make sense of an encounter (Ramanujan, 1989; Sinha, 2014; Sinha & Kanungo, 2010). In the use of the term self (or the spiritual component, Self), it is the context that determines the sense in which the term is being used (Rao & Paranjpe, 2015). Furthermore, in the Indian medical system of Ayurveda, a person is conceived holistically, within an ecological context and developmental frame while making any recommendations for treatment.…”

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“…Furthermore, in the Indian medical system of Ayurveda, a person is conceived holistically, within an ecological context and developmental frame while making any recommendations for treatment. The focus is on holistic health and well-being and the maintenance of a balance between different aspects of the body (Rao & Paranjpe, 2015) in the context of the ecological setting and the seasonal variations. Theory about the life-span ( āśramas or stages) guides human expression at different ages by proposing that rightful conduct varies for different phases of life and the associated responsibilities.…”

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Making Sense of Culture for the Psychological Sciences

Chaudhary

Misra

Bansal

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Review of General Psychology

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In this article, we examine the place of culture in the human sciences with specific reference to psychology and the cultural histories of India. Despite the depth of scholarly writing on the intimate and inextricable ties between culture and psychological processes, core advancements and definitive positions in psychology have remained elusive. The privileging of a single culturally specific world-view alongside the exclusion of others has seriously hindered the authentic internationalization of psychology. We propose that linkages between culture and psychology need to be visualized as a dialogue between different cultural traditions. In the dialectics between bheda–abheda (difference and non-difference), structural-developmental, dispositional-relational, and social-collective processes will be invoked to develop our arguments for a human-science approach to the study of persons in culture. We argue that it is through the inclusion, rather than suppression, of diverse ideologies that generalizability can be best achieved. This is a call for an audit and reconstruction of psychology and its practices as an international discipline with a roadmap for theory construction and research informed by a cultural psychological approach toward human phenomena.

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“…Sometimes bhavanga and alaya-vijnana have been interpreted as an unconscious base, which makes consciousness possible ( Waldron, 2003 ; Rao and Paranjpe, 2015 ). If bhavanga or alaya-vijnana is interpreted as unconscious (but still presumably part of the mind) but continuous, then it is not clear what provides the continuity of conscious experience and it seems to simply move the problem of continuity of consciousness to continuity of non-consciousness.…”

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“…They mention four planes of consciousness, in which the fourth plane is called Lokuttara , which is unintentional consciousness ( nirvana ). Nirvana is a pure conscious state ( Rao and Paranjpe, 2015 ). In later schools like Vajrayana , Buddha Nature (ultimate reality) is defined as permanence, bliss, purity, and self ( Takasaki, 1966 ).…”

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Consciousness Without Content: A Look at Evidence and Prospects

Srinivasan

2020

Front. Psychol.

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Many traditions in the East have proposed that consciousness without content is possible and could be achieved with mental training. However, it is not clear whether such a state is possible given that intentionality is a critical property of mentality and consciousness in many theories of consciousness. A prominent recent attempt to account for such states of “minimal phenomenal experience” is the ascending reticular arousal system (ARAS) model, which proposes a specific type of non-conceptual representational content to address such a state. Consciousness without content can also be understood by studying related or similar states of minimal phenomenal experience and this paper discusses such findings from such states including dreamless sleep experience and their implications. One way to argue for the need for proposing consciousness without content is to locate a property of consciousness that would necessitate postulating it. A continuous state of consciousness without content may be needed to understand continuity of conscious experience. Finally, I discuss the implications of consciousness without content for current theories of consciousness.

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Theoretical Foundations and a Transdisciplinary Concept of Hope

Krafft

Guse

Slezáčková

2023

Cross-Cultural Advancements in Positive Psychology

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The current chapter has the primary purpose of laying the theoretical grounds on which the cross-cultural empirical research program of the Hope Barometer between 2017 and 2021 was developed and executed. The two main goals of this chapter correspond to the inter- and transdisciplinary methodology applied in our work. The first goal is to give a brief interdisciplinary overview of psychological, philosophical, and theological theories presenting different perspectives from which the existential phenomenon of hope has been studied. Following previous research, hope will be examined along six general dimensions, which highlight the nature of hope as cognition, as affect, as behavior, as a social phenomenon, as a virtue, and from a religious perspective. Based on the similarities and complementary views of these different conceptualizations of hope, a basic transdisciplinary concept or model of hope will be presented. The proposed concept should do justice to the essence of hope, taking into account the diversity of situations in which people might hope and being sensitive to different cultural backgrounds. Our conceptualization of hope contains three fundamental elements, which are (1) a wish or desire for a valuable good, (2) the belief that the realization of this wish is possible but uncertain or even unlikely, and (3) the trust in the availability of current or future internal and external resources which can facilitate the fulfillment of the hoped-for good in the face of obstacles and setbacks. We understand wish, belief, and trust as the universal elements in the process of hoping. In concrete situations and different cultural contexts, these three elements can assume different forms and characteristics related to those mentioned above cognitive, affective, behavioral, social, religious, and value dimensions. The singular elements and dimensions serve as the core research domains, which will be elaborated on in detail in the following chapters of the book.

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Applied Indian Psychology

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Making Sense of Culture for the Psychological Sciences

Making Sense of Culture for the Psychological Sciences

Consciousness Without Content: A Look at Evidence and Prospects

Theoretical Foundations and a Transdisciplinary Concept of Hope

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