title: Psychotherapy in India: past, present, and future.
abstract: If psychotherapy is defined as "interpersonal method of mitigating suffering" then many psychotherapeutic systems have existed in India a long time. Unlike Western systems, these have lacked a clinical bias but have provided a more global framework. The future of psychotherapy in both East and West lies in discovering a conceptual framework with universal validity within which ad hoc therapies--for symptom relief, personality development, or interpersonal adjustment--can be developed.
mesh_terms: D002016:Buddhism; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005544:Forecasting; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D009228:Mysticism; D010553:Personality Development; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000266:history; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012424:Rural Population; D012917:Social Adjustment; D014505:Urban Population; D015013:Yoga