Foundations of Yoga Psychology

12.12.2018

Englisch

9789811353901

Springer Singapore

Nein

K. Ramakrishna Rao

261

Softcover reprint of the original 1st edition 2017

Taschenbuch

K. Ramakrishna Rao, PhD, is Chancellor of GITAM University, Visakhapatnam, India. He has studied at Andhra University, India and the University of Chicago, USA. He obtained PhD and D.Litt. degrees in philosophy and psychology, respectively from Andhra University and served as professor and Vice-Chancellor at Andhra University. During his long and illustrious career, he has worked at Duke University, USA and taught at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and the California Institute of Human Science, Encinitas, CA. He also served as the Executive Director of the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man (now known as the Rhine Research Center), in the USA. In the Government of Andhra Pradesh, India, Professor Rao served as the Advisor to Government on Higher Education and the Founder-Chairman of the Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education. He was the Vice-Chairman of the Andhra Pradesh State Planning Board during 1994-95. More recently, he served as the Chairman of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research (2006-2012). Professor Rao has published 20 books, around 50 book chapters and over 300 research papers in national and international journals. Several of his books have been published abroad and some translated into Japanese, German, Italian and Spanish. Among his recent books are Consciousness Studies: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (2002), Cognitive Anomalies, Consciousness and Yoga (2011), Gandhi and Applied Spirituality (2011), Cultivating Consciousness: An East-West Journey (2013), and Psychology in the Indian Tradition (coauthored with Anand C. Paranjpe, Springer 2016). Prof. Rao has received numerous academic awards like Fulbright and Rockefeller Foundation fellowships and honorary doctoral degrees by Andhra University, Nagarjuna University and Kakatiya University, India. The Government of India honored Prof. Ramakrishna Rao with the Padma Shri Award in 2011.

empirical studies of meditation, Gandhi and yoga, metapsychology of yoga, control of the mind, yoga and spirituality, Advaita Vedanta and Yoga, samadhi as a quality of mind, states of the mind, yoga as practice, yoga as concentration, focused attention, mind and consciousness, freedom of mind

JM - Psychologie QDTM - Philosophie des Geistes QRYM2 - Spiritualismus, Spiritismus

235 mm

15.5 cm