Sri Aurobindo's Psychological Thought - Implications Of Yoga For Mental Health
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,
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
and psychotherapy 55,62,
136-37
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