Sri Aurobindo and Integral Yoga Psychology
Integral psychology began in the 1940s, when Indra Sen, a devotee of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, established the field of Integral Psychology, based on a comparison of Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yogic psychology and the psychology of Freud and Jung, although his book of the same name only appeared in 1986.
Independently of Sen, N. V. Subbannachar who looked at Social Psychology and Integral evolution from the perspective of Sri Aurobindo's psychology
Since then a number of other books on or comparing Sri Aurobindo's integral psychology have appeared., as well as a comprehensive compilation of Sri Aurobindo's analysis of levels of mind.
Sri Aurobindo's yoga psychology has also been presented in a scientific and evolutionary context by Don Salmon and Jan Maslow.
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