Sudhir Kakar is a psychoanalyst and writer who
lives in Goa, India. Kakar took his Bachelor’s
degree in mechanical engineering from Gujarat
University, his Master’s degree
(Diplom-Kaufmann) in business economics from Mannheim
in Germany and his doctorate
in economics from Vienna before beginning his
training in psychoanalysis at the Sigmund-Freud Institute in Frankfurt, Germany
in 1971. Between 1966 and 1971, Sudhir Kakar was a Lecturer in General
Education at Harvard University, Research Associate at Harvard Business
School and Professor of
Organizational Behaviour at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. After
returning to India in 1975 ,
Dr. Kakar set up a practice as a psychoanalyst in Delhi where he was also the Head of
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology.
He has been 40th Anniversary Senior Fellow at the Centre for Study of World
Religions at Harvard (2001-02), a visiting professor at the universities of
Chicago (1989-93), McGill (1976-77), Melbourne (1981), Hawaii (1998) and Vienna
(1974-75) and a Fellow at the Institutes of Advanced Study, Princeton and Berlin.
Since 1994, he is Adjunct Professor of Leadership at INSEAD in Fontainbleau, France. A leading figure in the
fields of cultural psychology and the psychology of religion, as well as a
novelist, Dr. Kakar’s person and work have been profiled in The New York Times,
Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Neue Zuricher Zeitung, Die Zeit and Le Nouvel
Observateur, which listed him as one of the world's 25 major thinkers while the
German weekly Die Zeit portrayed Sudhir Kakar as one of the 21 important
thinkers for the 21st century. Dr. Kakar's many honors include the Kardiner
Award of Columbia University, Boyer Prize for Psychological
Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association, Germany ’s
Goethe Medal, Rockefeller Residency, McArthur Fellowship and Distinguished
Service Award of Indo-American Psychiatric Association. He is a member of the
New York Academy of Sciences, the Board of Sigmund Freud Archives in the
Library of Congress, Washington and the
Academie Universelle des Culture,
France. Sudhir
Kakar’s seventeen books of non-fiction and four of fiction, include The Inner
World (now in its 16th printing since its first publication in 1978), Shamans,
Mystics and Doctors , (with J.M. Ross ) Tales of Love, Sex and Danger,Intimate
Relations, The Analyst and the Mystic, The Colors of Violence,Culture and
Psyche, (with K.Kakar) The Indians: Portrait of a People, (with Wendy Doniger),
a new translation of the Kamasutra for Oxford world Classics and Mad and
Divine: Spirit and Psyche in the Modern World. He is also the author of the
novels The Ascetic of Desire, Ecstasy, Mira and Mahatma, The Crimson Throne
(shortlisted for the 2010 Vodaphone Crossword award for fiction) and the editor
of Indian Love Stories. His most recent book is the memoir A Book of Memory,
published in February 2011. An edited volume On Dreams and Dreaming will be
published in June 2011. His books have been translated into twenty languages
around the world. Sudhir Kakar is married to Katharina, a writer and a scholar
of comparative religions. He has two children, a son Rahul who is in financial
services, and a daughter Shveta, a lawyer, both in New York.
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