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| name = Girindrasekhar Bose
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| birth_name = Girindrasekhar Bose
| birth_date = {{birth date|1887|01|31|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Darbhanga]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
( Now in [[Bihar]], [[India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1953|6|3|1887|01|31|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
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'''Girindrasekhar Bose''' (31 January 1887 – 3 June 1953) was an early 20th-century [[South Asian]] [[psychoanalyst]], the first president (1922–1953) of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society.<ref name=IDP>Sudhir Kakar, 'Girindrasekhar Bose (1886-1953), ''International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis''. [http://www.answers.com/topic/bose-girindrasekhar?cat=health Reprinted online] at [[answers.com]]</ref> Bose carried on a twenty-year dialogue with [[Sigmund Freud]]. Known for disputing the specifics of [[Freud]]'s [[Oedipal]] theory, he has been pointed to by some as an early example of non-Western contestations of Western methodologies. Apart from this, he also started the first general hospital psychiatry unit (GHPU) in Asia at the R.G. Kar Medical College, Calcutta in 1933.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bhattacharyya|first=Ranjan|date=2018-02-01|title=The development of mental hospitals in West Bengal: A brief history and changing trends|url=https://www.indianjpsychiatry.org/article.asp?issn=0019-5545;year=2018;volume=60;issue=6;spage=198;epage=202;aulast=Bhattacharyya;type=0|journal=Indian Journal of Psychiatry|language=en|volume=60|issue=6|pages=198|doi=10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_432_17|issn=0019-5545|pmid=29527048}}</ref>

==Life and work==
Bose's doctoral thesis, ''Concept of Repression'' (1921) blended [[Hindu thought]] with Freudian concepts. He sent the thesis to Freud,<ref>[http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=APA.012.0110A Text of Girindrasekhar Bose's letter to Freud], December 1920</ref> which led to a correspondence between the two men and to the formation of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society in 1922 in Calcutta. Of the fifteen original members, nine were college teachers of psychology or philosophy and five belonged to the medical corps of the Indian Army, including two British psychiatrists. One of them was Owen A.R. Berkeley Hill,<ref>[http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=IJP.025.0177A Owen Berkeley Hill 1879—1944]</ref> famous for his work at the [[Ranchi]] Mental Hospital. In the same year, Bose wrote to Freud in Vienna. Freud was pleased that his ideas had spread to such a far-off land and asked Bose to write to [[Ernest Jones]], then President of the [[International Psychoanalytic Association]], for membership of that body. Bose did so and the Indian Psychoanalytic Society, with Bose as president (a position he held until his death in 1953) became a full-fledged member of the international psychoanalytic community.<ref name=IDP/><ref name=IDP-India>Sudhir Kakar, 'India', in''International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis''. [http://www.enotes.com/psychoanalysis-encyclopedia/india Reprinted online] on [[eNotes.com]]</ref> The review of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society is called ''[[Samiksha (journal)|Samiksha]]''<ref>[http://www.samiksha.cusp.net.in/default.html Samiksha] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426070945/http://www.samiksha.cusp.net.in/default.html |date=2012-04-26 }}</ref> and its first edition appeared in 1947.

==Works==

* ''Concept of Repression. By Girindrashekhar Bose''. Published by G. Bose, 14 Parsi Bagan, Calcutta, India. 1921. 223 pp. Rs. 10/ net.<ref>[http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=psar.009.0104a Review], ''Psychoanalytic Review'' 9:104 (1922)</ref>
* (with [[Ernest Jones]] and others) ''Glossary for the use of translators of psycho-analytic works'', 1926
*{{Cite journal | last1 = Bose | first1 = G. | year =1930 | title = The psychological outlook of Hindu philosophy |journal=Indian Journal of Psychology | volume = 5 | pages = 119–46 }}
*Bose, Girindrasekhar. (1933). "A New Theory of Mental Life". ''Indian Journal of Psychology'', '''37'''-157.

==Notes==
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==References==
*Hartnack, Christiane. (1990). "[[Vishnu]] on Freud's Desk:Psychoanalysis in Colonial India". ''[[Social Research]]'', '''57''' (4), 921-949.
*Hartnack, Christiane. (2003). [https://web.archive.org/web/20110927062143/http://www.iias.nl/iiasn/30/IIASNL30_10.pdf "Freud on Garuda's Wings - Psychoanalysis in Colonial India"]. ''IIAS Newsletter'' #30, March 2003
*Indian Psychoanalytical Society. (1955). ''Samiksa'' Special Issue on Bose.
*{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1177/000306516401200107 | pmid = 14110872 | last1 = Ramana | first1 = C.V. | year = 1964 | title = On the Early History and Development of Psychoanalysis in India | journal = Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | volume = 12 | pages = 110–134 | s2cid = 32018262 }}
*Kakar, Sudhir. (1997). "Encounters of the psychological kind: Freud, Jung and India" in ''Culture and Psyche: Psychoanalysis and India''. New York, Psyche Press.
*{{Cite journal | last1 = Mehta | first1 = P. | year = 1997 | title = The Import and Export of Psychoanalysis: India | journal = Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis | volume = 25 | issue = 3| pages = 455–471 | doi = 10.1521/jaap.1.1997.25.3.455 | pmid = 9513126 }}
*Nandy, Ashis. 'The savage Freud: the first non-Western psychoanalyst and the politics of secret selves in colonial India', in ''The savage Freud and other essays on possible and retrievable selves'', Princeton University Press, 1995, pp. 81–144

==Further reading==
*T.G. Vaidyanathan & Jeffrey J. Kripal (editors): ''Vishnu on Freud's Desk: A Reader in Psychoanalysis and Hinduism'', Oxford University Press {{ISBN|0-19-565835-3}}, Paperback (Edition: 2003)
*Amit Ranjan Basu,"Girindrasekhar Basu and the coming of psychology in colonial India," Theoretical Perspective, Vol.6, 1999, pp. 26–55.
*Amit Ranjan Basu, "Emergence of a Marginal Science in a Colonial City: Reading Psychiatry in Bengali Periodicals." Indian Economic and Social History Review, 41, 2004, pp 103–141.
*Amit Ranjan Basu, [http://www.dbdouble.freeuk.com/Historicizing.htm "Historicizing Indian psychiatry"] ''Indian Journal of Psychiatry'', Vol. '''47''', No. 2, 2005, pp. 126–129.
* Amit Ranjan Basu, [https://web.archive.org/web/20101125080528/http://cscsarchive.org/dataarchive/textfiles/textfile.2008-08-29.5012712653/file The Coming of Psychoanalysis in Colonial India: the Bengali Writings of Dr. Girindrasekhar Bose], No. 5, 1999 (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences), Enreca Occasional Paper Series - Cu[l]ture and the Disciplines: Papers from the Cultural Studies Workshops/Tapti Guha Thakurta (35.54 p.)
*Christopher Harding, ‘[http://theboredomproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Harding-Sigmunds-Asian-Fan-Club.pdf The Freud Franchise: Independence of Mind in India and Japan]’, in R. Clarke (ed), ''Celebrity and Colonialism: Fame, Power and Representation in (Post) Colonial Cultures'' (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009).
*Christopher Harding, 'Freud in Asia'. BBC Radio 3 documentary, broadcast 16 November 2014. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04p51zy

==External links==
*[http://www.answers.com/topic/bose-girindrasekhar?cat=health Biography]
*[https://openlibrary.org/b/OL2303618M Bose-Freud correspondence.]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090421164844/http://www.ipa.org.uk/default.aspx?page=39 About IPA, see "How did the IPA begin?"]
*[https://play.google.com/store/books/author?id=Girindrasekhar+Bose Books by Girindrasekhar Bose]

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