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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    INR 1000yesIIT Kharagpur

    The Syllabus

    Psychology: Definitions and Scope
    • The Evolution of Psychology: Etymology, History, Approaches, and Questions
    • Definitions of Psychology
    • Research methods: Scope and Challenges

    Schools of Western Psychology
    • Main schools: Structuralism, Functionalism, Psychoanalysis, Behaviourism, Humanism
    • The Psycho-physiological Anatomy (PPAn), models of the being and their implications 
    • Brain, Mind and Consciousness: Their relationship

    Paradigms of Indian/Yoga Psychology
    • Selected schools: vedānta, sāṃkhya, āryurveda
    • Psycho-physiological Anatomy (PPAn), models of the being and their implications
    • Fundamental questions of Indian Psychology

    Foundational Concepts of Indian Psychology - 1
    • Self and identity
    • Spectrum and map of Consciousness
    • States of Consciousness and Types of Knowledge
    • Vedic Triad: satyam, ṛtam, bṛhat and dharma
    • prakṛti, svabhāva and svadharma

    Foundation Concepts of Indian Psychology - 2
    • puruṣārthas and caturāśrama
    • Values: daivīsampat and āsurīsampat
    • The theory of karma and the importance of vivekabuddhi
    • Vedic Psychology: ṛṇa and yajña

    Concepts of Mind and Mind++ in Indian Psychology
    • Vedic Conception of the Mind
    • Conception of Mind in the six Philosophical Schools
    • Conception of Mind in Buddhism and Jainism

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