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`Integrated approach to psychology needed'

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PONDICHERRY, JAN. 8. The former chairman of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council, A. Gnanam, has stressed the need for a broad-based approach in the field psychology. Seminars and conferences organised by professional groups should bring together all aspects of psychology and neurology , he said.

He was inaugurating a two-day international seminar on integral yoga psychology and integral education organised by the Pondicherry Psychology Association in collaboration with the All-India Association for Education Research here today. He said mass psychology and mass pedagogy should be encouraged, particularly at a time when globalisation was giving rise to several challenges and opportunities.

The professional institutions should evolve strategies that would enable the development of psychology in all its formats, as psychology was both an art and a science.

Mr. Gnanam gave away the Best Educationist and Best Teacher Awards 2004 to G.B. Jaiprakash Narain, Director of the National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chennai.

The Best Educationist and Best Psychologist Awards 2004 were presented to Yogacharini Meenakshi Devi Bhavanani, Director of the International Centre for Yoga Education and Research, Pondicherry, and Subharansu Kumar Sarkar of Shantiniketan respectively.

The former president of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, Varanasi, G.P. Thakur, said that yoga was a lifestyle.

Other speakers included the chairman of the Achariya Educational Public Trust, J. Arawindhan, the president of the Psychology Assoication, Panch Ramalingam, the Chairman of the Federation of Psychology Associations in India (Chennai), K.V. Kaliappan, Kittu Reddy from Sri Aurobindo Ashram and Dr. Nalini Devi from Spain.

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