Education

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B.E. (Mechanical Engineering)

Gujarat University (India) | 1955-58

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Dipl.Kfm.

University of Mannheim, Germany | 1960-64

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Ph.D.

Vienna, Austria | 1965-67

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Post-doctoral psychoanalytic training as a candidate of the German Psychoanalytical Society

The Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt | 1971-75

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Academic Appointments

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Honorary Professor

GITAM, Vishakhapatnam | since 2014

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Kosambi Visiting Research Professor

Goa University |  2013

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Adjunct Professor

INSEAD, Fontainbleau (France) | 1994-2014

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Senior Fellow

Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University | 2001-02

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Visiting Professor

Department of Psychology, the College & School of Divinity,

University of Chicago, every Spring quarter. | 1989-93

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Senior Fellow

Center for the Study of Developing Societies,

New Delhi | 1980-90

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Professor & Chairman

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology,

New Delhi | 1976-77

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Visiting Professor of Behavioral Sciences

University of Economics, Vienna (Austria) | 1974-75

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Visiting Lecturer

Sigmund Freud Institute of Psychoanalytic Training and Research,

Frankfurt (Germany) | 1972

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Assistant Professor and from 1971, Professor of Organizational Behavior

Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India. Teaching Behavioral Sciences in

Post Graduate courses and in external programs. | 1968-71

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Research Fellow in Program for Applied Psychoanalysis

Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration | 1967-68

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Lecturer in General Education

Harvard University, Faculty of Arts & Sciences. Assistant to Professor Erik H.Erikson

and teaching in his course “The Human Life Cycle”. | 1966-67

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Honours & Awards

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Lotte Koehler Prize for Psychoanalytic Developmental, Social and Cultural Psychology | 2021

 

Merck Tagore Award | 2016

Order of Merit, Federal Republic of Germany | 2012

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Homi Bhabha Senior Fellow | 2012-14

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Fellow, Centre for Advanced Study in Humanities, University of Cologne | 2011-2014

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Distinguished Service Award of Indo-American Psychiatric Association | 2007

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Elected Fellow of National Academy of Psychology | 2007

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Member, Academie Universelle des Cultures, France | 2003

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Abraham Kardiner Award, Columbia University | 2002

 

Rockefeller Residency, Bellagio. April-May | 1999

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Goethe Medal of Goethe Institut, Germany | 1998

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Watumull Distinguished Scholar, University of Hawaii,Spring Semester | 1998

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Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin, 1994-95 & Summer | 1997

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National Fellow in Psychology, Indian Council of Social Science Research | 1992-94

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MacArthur Research Fellowship | 1993-94

 

Boyer Prize for Psychological Anthropology, American Anthropological Association | 1987

 

Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow | 1986-88

 

Member, School of Social Sciences, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton | 1983-84

 

Visiting Fellow, Harvard University | 1983

 

German Academic Exchange Fellowship | 1983

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Visiting Fellow, University of Melbourne, Winter Semester | 1981

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Homi Bhabha Fellow | 1979-80

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Senior Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research | 1975-76

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Karolyi Foundation Award for Young Writers | 1963