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Traditional Indian Personality Concepts and the Unrealised Potential for Paradigm Shift

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  • Radha Krishna Naidu

    (Centre of Advanced Study in Psychology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad)

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A brief description of the Samkhya view of buman personality is presented to bighlight the power and flexibility of this transpersonal approacb to accountfor a very wide range of psychological phenomena. It is pointed out that the non-emergence of this "wide- band"transpersonal approacb in modern Indian psychology is a bistorical enigma and the likely reasons for this paradox are discussed. Finally the dual epistemic status (descriptions and inferences) of the traditional Indian transpersonal statements is pointed out.

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  • Radha Krishna Naidu, 1994. "Traditional Indian Personality Concepts and the Unrealised Potential for Paradigm Shift," Psychology and Developing Societies, , vol. 6(1), pages 71-85, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:psydev:v:6:y:1994:i:1:p:71-85
    DOI: 10.1177/097133369400600105
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