An Introduction to Psychology

Global Outlook, Indian Perspectives
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-70278-0
Verlag: Routledge India

Buch, Englisch, 442 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 937 g

This textbook provides an essential, contextually sensitive and culturally relevant grounding in Psychology that sets the base for future studies. Replete with discussions on current themes and debates in the discipline, its interdisciplinary linkages are relevant in the current times in terms of their contributions and application.

This volume addresses the overarching questions of the discipline, with chapters organised to discuss psychological concepts, theories and principles in the light of cultural world views, where culture and the psyche are interdependent. It discusses the indigenous views of self and consciousness as well as contemporary applications of psychology in the global world.

This book, designed for a global readership, would be useful to the students and teachers of Psychology, Applied Psychology, and Sociology, and Social Work, Public Health, Gender and Women Studies.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Advanced and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pandit, Shilpa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Angewandte Psychologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Psychology as embedded in the cultural context 2. Who am I - Biology and Culture 3. Consciousness- The substratum, surround and interweave of Being /Self 4. Connecting with the World - Sensations and Perception 5. Knowing the World: Learning, Memory and Attention Systems 6. Self- Awareness, Cognition and Meta-cognition 7. Creativity and Decision making, Language and Communicating 8. Motivation and Emotion 9. Individual differences: Intelligence and Personality 10. Developing through the Life Span – Conception to Adolescence 11. Human Development through the Lifespan – Adolescence, Adulthood, Aging and Death 12. Being in the World – Self and relationships 13. Making Self; Social Context and Group Processes 14. Psychological Disorders 15. Sattvavajaya: Therapies for Mental Health Disorders 16. Svastha: Abiding in Self as health and well-being

Über Autor(innen)

Shilpa Pandit is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University. Shilpa is a Fulbright and Chevening Scholar and is deeply interested in questions on gender, youth, mental health and health per se, self and consciousness and the Indian theory of Rasa as well-being. She is a co-founder of the Dreampath Foundation, which works with youth in Karnataka (Dream Path Foundation).