Psychology, Mental Health and Yoga

Accidents 148,158-59

Adler, Alfred 6,7,29,51

Adverse (vital) Forces 112-14

possession by 113, 113fn

Affirmation 119,126-27

Anger 98,98fn

Anxiety (worry) 88, 89-90, 98

Archetype(s) 26-27,50

Assagioli, Robert 54,67, 135

Attitude(s) 117-28

and behaviour 117

and circumustances 120-23

witness 126

Auto-suggestion 119

Awareness

and consciousness 59,60

and identification 70

Behaviour

and archetypes 50-51

and attitudes 117

and insight 61

motivating forces 7

Behaviourism 10-11, 14

and psychoanalysis 11-12

Being

fullness of 62,63

individual and universal 60

inner 39,41,139

parts of 30,56

planes of 86

surface (outer) 17,41,138

Benson, Herbert 146

Bergson 6

Berne, Eric 52, 53

Breuer, Joseph 25

Buddha, the 96

Cannon, Walter B. 145,

146

Capra, Fritjof 49

Consciousness 18

and attitudes 118

and awareness 59,60

concept of 57,57-58

cosmic 58

and ego 18,19,58

essence of existence 58

evolution of 30

mental, rising above 124

and mind 17, 33-34

objectivising 88

physical 103,106

physical, vital, mental 118-19

science of 16-17,21

and self 60

spectrum of 18,19-20,58

widening 74

Datey, K.K. 151

Defence mechanisms 90-91

Depth psychology 5,10,57

Depression 98,98fn, 111

Desire(s) 96-97, 101,102

Detachment 142-43; cf. Witness

attitude

Disidentification 135,136,

142

Doubt 94-95

Dreams 35, 37,42

Drug addiction 106

Dyer, Dr. Wayne 129fn

Ebulia 95

Ego (egoism) 16, 18-19, 25,50,

68,110-12, 11Ofn, 133, 134,

136, 142

and consciousness 18,19,58

and disturbances 109-11

and freewill 133-34

and identification 74-75,76

and over-sensitiveness 112

Ellis, Albert 53,54

Epilepsy 114

Evolution 30-31,32

Fear 97-98

Freud, Sigmund 4,5,24-25,51,

52,53,57

and Jung 6,27-29

and repetition compulsion 9,

37. 106

and repression 7,9,24-25,

26

and Sri Aurobindo 7,9,37

and the unconscious 7,24,

25,45

Gestalt Therapy 52

Gita, the 132,133,135,137,

138,141,143

Gunas 133,134, 137,138.142

Habit 104106

Hartmann, E. Von 23

Holmes, T.H. 100,101

Humanistic Psychology 14-15

Hysteria 113

Identification 65-78, 136, 137,

139

and awareness 70

conscious, methods of 76-77

curing nervous diseases 75

and the ego 74-75,76

and knowledge 69-70,71,72,

73,76,77-78

two types of 69-75

Iilness(es) 9,10,147,148,149

chronic 106

curing oneself 149-50

and stress 145

and vibrations of disorder 158

Impatience 98-100

Inconscience (Inconscient) 8,

30

and the subconscient 8fn, 34

Indecision 95-96

Inner being see under Being

Insanity 113

Introspection 17,57

James, William 24,117

Jung, Carl 7,9,23,29,38,53,

57,67, 111

on ego 19,111

and Freud 6,27-29

and Sri Aurobindo 7,9, 19,

41-42

and the unconscious 6,7,

26-27,28-29,41-42,43-44,

45, 50-51

Kant, Immanuel 23

Karma 134,137

Leibnitz, Gottfried 23

Libido 6,7,29

Life-force see Vital, the

Mania 111

mantra 126-27

Maslow, Abraham 14, 15

Masochism 102,103

Mastery 129-43 passim

Menninger, Karl 129

Mental (psychological) health

(well-being) 62,63,83-84,

129,141

Mind 33-34,56,118-20

and consciousness 17

and the vital 85-86

connotation of 85-86

control over 142

disturbances of 87-96

higher planes 43

limitations of 44,120

mental will 103-104,119,120,

121,124,125,140

physical 87,92-96

vital 90-91

Mother, the (quotations)

becoming conscious 56

circumstances 121-22,124

curing nervous diseases 75

depression 98

desire 96-97, 101-02

desire and love 72

establishing peace 154-56

fear 97-98

feeling of inferiority 111

feelings and perception 91-92

hurry 99-100, 153

identification 69-70,73-74,

75,76-77

illness is a disharmony 109-10

influence at conception

107-08

inner immobility 150

physical mind 92, 93, 94-95

positive peace 146

psychic openness 83-84

source of anxiety 88-90

tamas 102

vibrations 158-59, 160

widening of consciousness 74

Motivation

forces of 7

unconscious 10

Myers F.W.H. 38

Normality (normal state) 19,

114

Obsessive-compulsive

neurosis 96

Ornstein, Robert 16,57

Pain 150-51

Patel, Chandra H. 151

Pavlov, I. 12

Peck, M.Scott 113fn

Physical (being) (consciousness),

the 86-87,93,118

and nerves 105

disturbances of 102-05

vital-physical 105

Possession see under Adverse

Forces

Prakriti (Nature) 132,133,134,

137,138,141,142, 143

Prana 7

Prenatal influences 107-08

Projection 91-92

Psychic (being), the 114, 126,

138,139,140,141

and psychological health 84

meaning of the term 87

Psychoanalysis 4-6, 14, 49-50,

56,61

and behaviourism 11-12

and reductionism 13-14

Psychological health see Mental

health

Psychology

and self-knowledge 20-21

nature and scope 16-17

science of consciousness 16-17

and yoga 48, 56-57

Psychosomatic disorders 108-10

Psychosynthesis 54-55, 135

Purusha 132,134,138,141,

142,143

Rahe, R.H. 100, 101

Rajas 130,131,133,141

Rational-Emotive Therapy

53-54

Rationalization 90-91

Reductionism 12-14

Relaxation (relaxing) 146,

156-58

Repetition compulsion see under

Freud

Repression 25

Rosenman, R.H. 99,153

Sachchidananda 63

Sanskaras 36

Sattwa 130,131-32, 133,141

Self, the 43,54.137,138

and consciousness 60

and existence 60

Skinner, B.F. 12

Sri Aurobindo (quotations)

becoming fully self-aware 46

being the mind's master 142

circumstances 122-23

complexity of nature 55-56

concept of the vital 6

connotation of mind 85-86

consciousness 58-59

ego 19,111-12

fullness of being 62,63

habit 104

healing-power of

knowledge 56

the Inconscient and Matter 31

knowledge by identity 71

matter, Life and Mind 31-32

mind 44

motivating forces 7

need to know the whole 29

psychoanalysis 5, 13-14, 37

psychology 3,4,16-17

Rajas 131,141-42

and reductionism 12-13,13-14

Sattwa 131-32,141-42

Self 60

self-awareness 59

the subconscient 9-10,34,

35-37, 38, 39,105,106

the subliminal 38, 39-40,41

Tamas 130,142

tendency to keep grief 102

the two beings 138

the vital mind 90-91

weakness of will 103

witness attitude 126

Stress 100-01,145

Subconscient (subconscious),

the 9-10,30,34-37,38-39,

105-08

and the inconscient 34

and the subliminal 8

and the submental 34-35

Subliminal, the 8-9,30,

38-42

and collective

unconscious 41-42

and the subconscient 8

Superconscience

(Superconscient), the 30,

31,38-39,40,42-43,45-46

Superego 12,25,28,50,52,66

Supermind 43,62,62fn

Surface being see under Being

Sutich, Anthony 15

Tamas (inertia) 102-03,130,

133, 141

Titchener, E.B. 17

Transactional Analysis 52-53

Transpersonal Psychology

15-16,45,49

Type A behaviour 99,153

Unconscious, the 4, 23-46

passim

collective 6,7,26-27,28,41,

42,50

personal 7,26

Vibrations 158-59, 160

Vital, the (life force) (life

nature) 6,79,33,118-20

and the mind 85-86

disturbances of - 96-102

free expression of 101

masochistic tendency of 102

physical 87

Vital envelope 148

Vital-physical, the see under

Physical, the

Watson, J.B. 11

Welwood.John 20,24

Widening (oneself)

(consciousness) 74,157-58

Wilber,Ken 18,20,57,58

Will see mental will under Mind

Witness attitude 126; see also

Detachment

Wundt, Wilhelm 3

Yoga 21,83

and psychology see under

Psychology

and psychotherapy 55,62,

136-37