Yoga and Western Psychology

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About the Book

The present work is the product of author's profound studies in India's yogic system. The author has worked out this abstruse subject in a peculiarly comprehensible way. The comparison of the Eastern system of Yoga with the system of analytical psychology as developed in the West is bound to make the subject popular and attractive and all the same enlightening and useful. Both the theoretical analysis and the practical wisdom go hand in hand. the reader can get a clear idea of the system through the medium of this book.

'. .an admirably lucid exposition of a difficult subject and of a very difficult writer. .'

The Times Literary Supplement

'Certainly Miss Coster's book should be read by all who are interested in the urgent problem of the adjustment of the individual to reality...'

Yorkshire Post

Contents:

Part I. ANALYTICAL THERAPY

I. INTRODUCTION

II. ANALYTICAL THERAPY THE PRESENT POSITION

III. WHAT CAUSES PEOPLE TO UNDERGO ANALYSIS OR TO UNDERTAKE YOGA TRAINING?

IV. THE SENSE OF INSECURITY AND THE SEARCH FOR GOD

V. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANALYTICAL THEORY AND TECHNIQUE

Part II. YOGA

VI. THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF PATANJALI'S PHILOSOPHY

VII. THE YOGA SUTRAS OF PATANJALI

Part III. A COMPARISON

VIII. MODIFICATIONS OF THE THINKING PRINCIPLE: CONFUSED THOUGHT

IX. MODIFICATION OF THE THINKING PRINCIPLE CLEAR THINKING

X. THE FIVE OBSTACLES

XI. OVER COMING THE OBSTACLES: THE FIVE PRELIMINARY EXERCISES

XII. OVERCOMING THE OBSTACLES: CONCENTRATION

XIII. SUGGESTION AND CONTRARY PRODUCTION

XIV. THE SEER AND THE SEEN

XV. THE PROGRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT OF CONSCIOUSNESS

XVI. CONCLUSION