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The Psychology of Yoga

Integrating Eastern and Western Approaches for Understanding the Mind

By Georg Feuerstein

$29.95
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9781611800425
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Shambhala Publications
12/13/2013
Pages: 304
Size: 6 x 9
ISBN: 9781611800425
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“Psychoanalysis itself and the lines of thought to which it gives rise,” said C. G. Jung, “are only a beginner’s attempt compared to what is an immemorial art in the East”—by which he was referring to the millennia-old study of the mind found in Yoga. That tradition was hardly known in the West when the discipline of psychology arose in the nineteenth century, but with the passing of time the common ground between Yoga and psychology has become ever more apparent. Georg Feuerstein here uses a modern psychological perspective to explore the ways Hindu, Buddhist, and Jaina yogas have traditionally regarded the mind and how it works—and shows how that understanding can enhance modern psychology in both theory and practice.

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Author Bio
Georg Feuerstein

Georg Feuerstein, PhD, (1947–2012) is internationally respected for his work on Yoga and is the author of over fifty books. He designed and taught several distance-learning courses on Yoga philosophy for Traditional Yoga Studies. For more information, go to www.traditionalyogastudies.com.

Praise

"As with all of his previous contributions to the literature of Yoga, Dr. Feuerstein’s Psychology of Yoga stands apart as a masterwork, exhaustively researched and intelligently written, a treasure of insight for the serious student into this most complex subject." —Richard Rosen, author of Original Yoga and The Practice of Pranayama

"A feast of wisdom and lore assembled from a perspective possible only for one whose monumental scholarship has been tempered and leavened by practice. The Psychology of Yoga will be an invaluable and enduring resource for students of Yoga, Buddhism, and psychology." —Chip Hartranft, author of The Yoga-Sūtra of Patañjali: A New Translation with Commentary

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