Book of Memory A Confessions and Reflections

An inspired observer of the Indian psyche Sudhir Kakar trained as a psychoanalyst at the Sigmund Freud Institute Frankfurt. He set up a clinic in Delhi in 1975 thus embarking on a lifelong search for the wellsprings of Indian identity. He went on to establish the new discipline of cultural psychology.A Book of Memory records not only the crises of identity and intellect but also the highs and lows of love and pleasure. It is fearless and revelatory with regard to the self and its motivations a rare candour illuminating the urbane prose. Review That rare autobiography without a touch of conceit --Outlook About the Author Sudhir Kakar is a distinguished psychoanalyst and writer. He has written seventeen highly acclaimed books of non-fiction which include among others The Inner World (now in its sixteenth printing since its first publication in 1978) Shamans Mystics and Doctors Intimate Relations The Colours of Violence and most recently Young Tagore The Makings of a Genius. He has written four novels and his books have been translated into twenty-one languages around the world. Kakar has taught at leading institutions around the world and has won numerous accolades for his work. In February 2012 he was conferred the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany the country’s highest civilian honor.