A Lesson into Decolonized Psychiatric and Psychoanalytic Practice: Demystifying the Works of Girindrasekhar Bose

Introduction The endeavor of practitioners psychiatry and psychoanalysis has been to break the disciplinary silos re-think what practice is all about. There was a person who pioneered this aim intradisciplinary interdisciplinary synthesis. His name Girindrasekhar Bose. He psychiatrist, psychologist, psychoanalyst challenged Freudian universalism Oedipus complex. Objectives We have forgotten that texts emanating from land India were profoundly psychological can inform psychiatric/psychoanalytic practice. Bose’s exchange letters with Sigmund Freud known by many but read only few. gave us path think about psychiatric psychoanalytic India. paper looks at his works on Bhagavad Gita, Puranas, Yoga Sutras, Vedas, which he claimed, immensely beneficial for training help work through way we perceive medical Methods This research used primary sources like books articles Bose in terms today’s Results Can imagine writing our native language being critically acclaimed internationally? writings Bengali suggest more decolonized 1920s than Indian scholars today. Keeping mind existential ground patient, understanding symptoms revolutionize care. Conclusions Our times where could possibly reach an unity. A re-discovery earnest endeavor. Disclosure Interest None Declared