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This interesting work, subtitled, “A Measure for Health, Social Change, and Leadership,” offers a novel approach to depth psychology and psychiatry. It incorporates these disciplines into the broader context of an original monolithic philosophy of our time. It also shows a unique and unexpected way of overcoming the “departmentalization of sciences” which has resulted in “fragmented theories of man.” Thus it provides a holistic psychology and philosophy, directed toward human life in its entirety which, by its own nature, encompasses a great healing force.
The author has obtained this amalgamation of Western concepts with Oriental ideas by eliminating another cleavage which has threatened to invalidate our psycho-philosophical findings. Thus, a Western psychiatrist, using his psychodynamic training, can treat a person from a completely different cultural frame of reference.
The author, an Iranian now with the George Washington University Department of Psychatry, is a Persian scholar and psychologist brought up in Islamic cultural tradition. He has devoted many years to researching our Western neuropsychiatric, psychological and philosophical heritage. He