Download or read book Self and Identity in Modern Psychology and Indian Thought written by Anand C. Paranjpe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-11 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East meets West in this fascinating exploration of conceptions of personal identity in Indian philosophy and modern Euro-American psychology. Author Anand Paranjpe considers these two distinct traditions with regard to historical, disciplinary, and cultural `gaps' in the study of the self, and in the context of such theoretical perspectives as univocalism, relativism, and pluralism. The text includes a comparison of ideas on self as represented by two eminent thinkers-Erik H. Erikson for the Western view, and Advaita Vedanta for the Indian.