title: Clinical work and cultural imagination.
abstract: With illustrations from clinical experience in India, this paper discusses the question of the cultural rootedness of psychoanalysis as a therapeutic method and some of the cultural differences, chiefly, the dominance of the theme of "maternal enthrallment," both in Indian cultural imagination and in clinical work with male patients.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kakar
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003906:Developing Countries; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D010553:Personality Development; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*