The author, Prof. Dr. Erna Hoch, deeply devoted to India's great religious and philosophical tradition, worked for 32 years as a psychiatrist in various positions and places in India, in developed and Westernized cities and institu-tes as well as functioning as a village doctor for illiter-ate peasants and herdsmen of the Himalayas. Her Western sources are the European medical tradition and the existen-tial philosophy of Martin Heidegger with which she came Into contact through Medard Boss, who had introduced Hei-degger's thinking into his existential psychotherapy Daseinsanalyse). Erna Hoch was able to use the Western sources of philosophy and psychiatry as resources for her work as a doctor, psychiatrist, psychotherapist in India. On the other hand, she was also guided in this work by the fruitful contacts she found with the Indian sources. Her open-minded interest, sympathy and empathy with her patients of all social strata allowed her to adapt her psychotherapy to the level of consciousness of her clients. From Indian sources she could find resour-ces for creating the images to fit their capacity for comprehension, promoting their wholesome growth and benefi-cial metamorphosis.
Nourished by her sources in Europe and India, using them as fruitful resources according to the needs of her clients, the receptivity of her audience and the openness of her discussion partners in West and East for colloquy as a fruitful intersubjective exchange, she became a bearer of messages, a hermes for both countries. Her papers thus enrich Western self-reflection on its own culturally limit-ed conception and at the same time strengthen India's serious consideration of its own anthropological, religious and philosophical inheritance.
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