ACADEMIC BACKGROUND :    
          
B.E. (Mechanical Engineering),   
Gujarat University (India), 1955-1958   
          
1960-1964 - DKFM, University of   
Manheim, West Germany     
           
1965-1967 - Ph.D. Vienna, Austria   
1971-1975   
          
Post-Doctoral Psychoanalytic Training   
as a candidate of the German   
Psychoanalytical Society at the   
Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt   
       
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
             
             
             
             
           
           
           
                        
    Graduation as Member, Indian Psychoanalytic Society and        
    International Psychoanalytic Association, 1980        
                     
    POSITIONS HELD :         
                     
    Training and Supervising Analyst, Indian Psychoanalytic Society, 1984-1993        
                     
    Member, International Psychoanalytic Association        
                     
    Member, New York Academy of Sciences        
                     
    Editorial Board, American Journal of Psychotherapy        
                     
    Revue International d'histoire de la Psycahanalyse        
                     
    Anthropology and Medicine        
                     
    International Journal of Indian Studies        
                     
    Indian Social Science Review        
                     
    Journal of History of Sexuality, 1990-1992        
                     
    Psychotherapy, 1982-1985 Advisory Council Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin        
                     
      1987-1993 Delphi Psychoanalytic Symposium Institute for        
      Interkulturellen Studien, Zurich        
                       
      Executive Council Indian Council of Social Science Research, 1994- 1997        
                
      PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES :        
                       
      Senior Fellow, Center for Study of World Religions, Harvard University. 2001- 

 
      Visiting Professor University of Chicago Divinity School,        
      Department of Psychology and College, 1989-1992 (Every Spring Quarter)        
                       
      University of Melbourne, 1982 McGill University        
                       
      1977 - 1978 Vienna        
                       
      1974-1975 Senior Fellow, Centre for Study of Developing Societies        
                       
      Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Indian Institute of Management,        
      Ahmedabad, 1968-1971        
                       
      Research Fellow, Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration        
                       
      1967 Lecturer in General Education, Harvard University        
                       
      1965-1966 Teaching in Erik Erikson's course “ The Human Life Cycle”        
                       
      Since 1994 teaching in “ The Challenge of Leadership” CEOs at INSEAD,        
      Fontainbleau, France        
               
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
      HONORS AND AWARDS :

Kardiner Award, Columbia University. 

Rockefeller Residency, Bellagio. 

Goethe-Medal, Germany. 

Watumull Distinguished Scholar, University of Hawaii.. 

Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin. 

National Fellow in Psychology, Indian Council of Social Science Research. 

Boyer Prize, American Anthropological Association. 

Nehru Fellow.. 

Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. 

Visiting Fellow, Harvard University. 

German Academic Exchange Fellow. 

Homi Bhabha Fellow. 

SOCIETIES AND BOARDS :

Training and Supervising Analyst, Indian Psychoanalytic Society, 1984-93. 

Member, International Psychoanalytic Association. 

Member, New York Academy of Sciences 

Advisory Council 

Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin, 1987-93. 

Delphi Psychoanalytic Symposium 

Institute fur Interkulturellen Studien, Zurich. 

ENDOWED LECTURES :

Abraham Kardiner Lecture, Columbia University. 

The Freud Lecture of Sigmund-Freud Stiftung, Germany. 

Erik Erikson Lectures, Harvard University. 

George De Vos Lectures, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. 

The Haskell Lectures on Religion, University of Chicago. 

       
     
PUBLICATIONS :
       
                       
      FREDERICK TAYLOR : A Study in Personality and Innovation 
(Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press, 1970)

(With K. Chowdhary) CONFLICT AND CHOICE :
Indian Youth in a Changing Society, (Bombay 1997-1971)

THE INNER WORLD : A Psychoanalytic Study of Childhood and 
Society in India, (Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1978), 
9th Printing, 1997
Spanish Translation (Mexico : Fonda de Cultura, 1987) 
French Translation (Paris : Les Belles Lettres, 1985)
German Translation (Frankfurt : Nexus Verlag, 1988)
Italian Translation ( Parma : Pratiche Editrice, in Press)

Editor and Contributor, with an introduction , 
IDENTITY AND ADULTHOOD, (Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1980)
Paperback, 1992, 1998 

SHAMANS, MYSTICS AND DOCTORS : A Psychological Inquiry into India and 
its Healing Traditions (New York : A Knopt, 1982)
Indian edition (Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1982)
British edition (London : Allen & Unwin, 1984)
Paperback (Boston : Beacon Press,1983 & 
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991)
German Chicago Press, 1991) Verlag,1984)
Hindi Translation (Delhi Rajkamal, in press)
Spanish Translation (Mexico : Fondo de Cultura, 1990)
French Translation (Paris : Seul, 1997)
Marathi Translation (Bombay: Majestic,1993)
Italian Translation (Parma: Pratiche Editrice, 1993 & 1998)

(with J.Ross) TALES OF LOVE, SEX AND DANGER
(Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1986. Paperback, 1992 & 1996)
British Edition London: Unwin Hyman, 1987)
U.S. Edition (New York : Blackwell, 1988)
German Translation (Munich: Beck Verlag, 1986)
French Translation (Paris : PUF, 1987)
Japanese Translation (Osaka: Sogensha, in press)
Italian Translation (Como: Lyra Libri, 1982)

INTIMATE RELATIONS : 
Exploring Indian Sexuality , (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990)
Indian Edition (Delhi : Viking, 1989)
Paperback (Penguin Books, 1991)
Marathi Translation (Pune : Raghuvanshi Prakashan, 1992)
French Translation (Paris: des Femmes, 1990)
German Munich : Verlag Waldsgut, 1994)
Italian Translation (Parma : Pratiche Translation (Editrice, 1995). 
Hindi Translation ( Delhi : Vani Prakashan, in Press) 

THE ANALYST AND THE MYSTIC (Chicago : University of Chicago 
Press, 1992)
Indian Edition (Delhi : Penguin-Viking, 1991)

(with C. Clement) LA FOLLE ET LE SAINT Paris: Seul, 1993) 
German Translation (Munich: Beck Verlag, 1993)
Portugese Translation (Rio de Jenario : Relume Dumara, 1997)
Italian Translation (Rome: Corbaccio, 1997)

THE COLOURS OF VIOLENCE, Religious-Cultural Identities and Conflict 
(Chicago: university of Chicago Press, 1996)
Indian Edition (Delhi : Penguin-Viking,1995)
German Translation (Munich: Beck Verlag, 1997)
Hindi Translation (Delhi: Rajkamal, in Press)

CULTURE AND PSYCHE (New York : Psyche Press, 1997)
Indian Edition (Delhi: Oxford university Press, 1997)

THE ESSENTIAL WRITINGS OF SUDHIR KAKAR 
( Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000)

(with Wendy Doniger) THE KAMASUTRA OR THE BOOK OF SEX 
A new Translation (London: Oxford University Press, in Press)

THE ASCETIC OF DESIRE, A Novel.(Delhi: Penguin, 1998). Translated into 
German, Hindi, Italian, French, Gujarati, Spanish, Portugese and Hungarian. 

INDIAN LOVE STORIES, (Delhi: Roli Books, 1999). 

ECSTASY, A Novel, (Delhi:Penguin, 2001). Translations in German, Hind, 
Italian and French (in Press).

       
       

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