Psychology, Mental Health and Yoga

"... not a single person is normal, because to be normal is to be divine."
The Mother

Since, as Sri Aurobindo has stated, "Yoga is nothing but practical psychology", resolving the psychological problems inherent in human nature is the crux of the practice of yoga. As such, yoga necessarily deals with psychology and psychiatry. The purpose of this essay is to explain the nature of psychological disturbances from the viewpoint of Sri Aurobindo's psychological thought implicit in his Integral Yoga. In doing so, we will draw mostly from specific references in the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother bearing on the subject. -p83