In this authoritative, groundbreaking work, Swami Ajaya, a practicing clinical psychologist, compares the diverse teachings of ancient and modern psychotherapies. Part I of this highly readable analysis examines the philosophical assumptions underlying our current therapeutic psychologies—reductionism, humanism, dualism—and contrasts these psychotherapies with the more inclusive outlook of the monistic paradigm. Part II explains the application of yoga therapy, contrasting it with the approaches of modern psychology.

About the Author:

Swami Ajaya has the unique distinction of being both a clinical psychologist and a swami. He was educated at Wesleyan University and the University of California at Berkeley, where he received a Ph.D. in psychology. After serving as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin Department of Psychiatry and teaching at the University, he traveled and studied with various sages of India. He current has psychotherapy centers as well as yoga meditation centers in the US.

Reviews:

• “This book is unique and outstanding, for it relates the sophisticated science of Eastern psychology and psychotherapy to the techniques of Western psychology and psychotherapy.”
  —International Psychologist