Drawing on work with Indian and Japanese patients, a prominent
American psychoanalyst explores inner worlds that are markedly
different from the Western psyche. A series of fascinating case
studies illustrates Alan Roland's argument: the "familial self,"
rooted in the subtle emotional hierarchical relationships of the
family and group, predominates in Indian and Japanese psyches and
contrasts strongly with the Western "individualized self." In
perceptive and sympathetic terms Roland describes the emotional
problems that occur when Indians and Japanese encounter Western
culture and the resulting successful integration of new patterns
that he calls the "expanding self." Of particular interest are
descriptions of the special problems of women in changing society
and of the paradoxical relationship of the "spiritual self" of
Indians and Japanese to the "familial self."
Also described is Roland's own response to the broadening of his
emotional and intellectual horizons as he talked to patients and
supervised therapists in India and Japan. "As we were coming in for
a landing to Bombay," he writes, "the plane banked so sharply that
when I supposedly looked down all I could see were the stars, while
if I looked up, there were the lights of the city." This is the
"world turned upside down" that he describes so eloquently in this
book. What he has learned will fascinate those who wish to deepen
their understanding of a different way of being.
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