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'''Indra Sen''' (13 May 1903 – 14 March 1994) was a devotee of [[Sri Aurobindo]] and [[Mirra Alfassa|The Mother]], [[psychologist]], author, and educator, and the founder of [[Integral psychology]] as an academic discipline.

Sen was born in the [[Jhelum District]] of [[Punjab region|Punjab]] (now part of Pakistan) in a [[Punjabi Hindu]] family from [[Punjab]], but grew up in [[Delhi]] when his family moved there. From a young age he was interested in the spiritual quest. He completed a master's degree in both Philosophy and Psychology at the [[University of Delhi]].

To further his studies, he enrolled at the [[University of Freiburg]], in Germany, and obtained a PhD in Philosophy. He also attended the lectures of [[Martin Heidegger]] and taught Indian Philosophy and Sanskrit at the [[University of Koenigsberg]]. At this time, his main interests were [[Hegel]]'s philosophy, and [[Carl Gustav Jung|Jung]]'s psychology. He later returned to the University of Delhi. In December 1933 he met Jung when the latter visited Calcutta for the [[Indian Science Congress]].<ref>Aster Patel, "The Presence of Dr Indra Senji", [http://sabda.sriaurobindoashram.org/pdf/news/nov2003.pdf SABDA – Recent Publications, November 2003], pp. 9–10</ref> Sen went on to become President of the psychology section of the Indian Science Congress, and was also a recipient of the Eastern-Western psychology lecture award of the Swami Pranavananda Psychology Trust<ref>Don Salmon and Jan Maslow, ''Yoga Psychology and the Transformation of Consciousness'' Paragon House, 2007, {{ISBN|1-55778-835-9}} p. 357</ref>

In 1945, Sen left his university post and joined his family at the [[Sri Aurobindo Ashram]]. In following years, through lectures, published writings, and personal contacts, he presented Sri Aurobindo's work to academia and universities, where it became well known for the first time.

In a series of professional papers published from the mid-1930s through the 1940s and 1950s, he coined the term [[Integral psychology]], to describe the psychological observations contained in Sri Aurobindo's Yoga psychology and philosophy.<ref>Brant Cortright, ''Integral Psychology: Yoga, Growth, and Opening the Heart'', SUNY, 2007 {{ISBN|0-7914-7071-7}}, p.5; Salmon and Maslow, ''Yoga Psychology and the Transformation of Consciousness'' p. 357</ref> He also was concerned with the formulation of [[integral education]] as presented in the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother.<ref>Patel, "The Presence of Dr Indra Senji", p. 11</ref>

His papers, which were sent to Sri Aurobindo and later The Mother before publication, were presented at scientific congresses or published in Ashram journals.<ref>Patel, "The Presence of Dr Indra Senji", p. 10</ref> It was not until 1986 that these papers were published, by the [[Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education]] in book form, as ''Integral Psychology: The Psychological System of Sri Aurobindo''. This has since been issued in a second edition. The field of Integral psychology was later taken up and developed by [[Haridas Chaudhuri]] when he founded the Integral Counseling Psychology program at what is now the [[California Institute of Integral Studies]], in the 1970s.

Another of Sen's tasks was to develop three centres for the ashram under The Mother's supervision. One was at [[Jwalapur]], near [[Haridwar]], and the other two in the [[Kumaon Hills]] – "Mountain Paradise", an orchard, and "Tapogiri", a place for [[sadhana]] (spiritual practice). The last mentioned especially, he was very committed to.

In all of Sen's work, themes of [[Integral yoga|integral]] and [[Integrity|wholeness]] were very important, and he frequently used terms like "Integral Culture" and "Integral Man".<ref>Patel, "The Presence of Dr Indra Senji", p. 12</ref> He observed that in Indian psychology "the theoretical and the practical motives of life are combined"<ref>Sen, 1960, "The Indian Approach to Psychology" in Chaudhuri and Spiegelberg eds, ''The Integral Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo'', London: George Allen and Unwin, 1960, p. 186, cited in Haridas Chaudhuri "Yoga Psychology", in Charles T. Tart (ed.) ''Transpersonal Psychologies'', Harper Colophon, 1975, p. 236</ref> and was critical of psychoanalysis for not being interested in the problem of emotional life as a whole.<ref>Melvin Herman Marx and William Allen Hillix, ''Systems and theories in psychology'', McGraw-Hill, 1963, page 461</ref>

==Bibliography==
* Sen, Indra, The integration of the personality. ''[[Indian Journal of Psychology|Indian J. Psychol.]]'' 1943 18 31–34.
* – -- A Psychological Appreciation of Sri Aurobindo's System of Integral Yoga. [[Sri Aurobindo Mandir]] 1944
* – -- Education and Yoga. [[Sri Aurobindo Mandir]] 1945
* – -- Sri Aurobindo on the Ideal of Work. ''[[The Advent (journal)|The Advent]]'' August 1945
* – -- The urge for wholeness. ''[[Indian Journal of Psychology|Indian J. Psychol.]]'' 1946 21 1–32.
* – -- Ideals of Indian Philosophy and Educational Life. [[Vedanta Kesari]] 1949–50
* – -- Personality and integral Yoga. ''J. Educ. & Psychol.'' 1951 9 88–93
* – -- Sri Aurobindo's Theory of the Mind. [[Philosophy East and West]] 1952 – and Das, A.C.
* – -- The Pursuit of Philosophy. [[Sri Aurobindo Mandir]] 1952
* – -- East-West Synthesis in Sri Aurobindo. ''[[The Advent (journal)|The Advent]]'' November 1954
* – -- The Yogic Way. Basant 1957
* – -- Concept of Man in Sri Aurobindo. ''[[The Advent (journal)|The Advent]]'' April 1957; [[World Union]] July–Sept 1968
* – -- Sri Aurobindo as a World Philosopher. [[Philosophy East and West]] 1957–58
* – -- Reflections on Sri Aurobindo. ''Pioneer of the Supramental Age'' 1958
* – -- The New Lead in Philosophy. ''[[Mother India (journal)|Mother India]]'' November 1958
* – -- The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo as a Contemporary Contribution to Indian Psychology. ''[[Mother India (journal)|Mother India]]'' February 1959
* – -- The Integral Yoga and Modern Psychology. Basant 1960
* – -- Soul in Ancient and Modern Thought. ''Jr. Yoga Inst.'' 1962
* – -- Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. ''[[The Advent (journal)|The Advent]]'' August 1966
* – -- The integral Personality. ''[[The Advent (journal)|The Advent]]'' November 1966
* – -- The Future Culture of India and the World. ''[[Mother India (journal)|Mother India]]'' December 1966
* – -- The Pathways to Perfection, the Integral Way. [[Srinvantu]] February 1967
* – -- The Yogic Approach to Administration. ''[[The Advent (journal)|The Advent]]'' February 1967
* – -- Intellectual Activity under Spiritual Auspices. [[Srinvantu]] April 1967
* – -- Personality and integral Yoga. ''[[The Advent (journal)|The Advent]]'' November 1967
* – -- The Supramental Truth. ''[[The Advent (journal)|The Advent]]'' April 1968
* – -- The Integral Culture of Man. [[World Union]] April–June 1970; Unesco Declaration 1970
* – -- Sri Aurobindo and The Mother; Meditation and Allied Methods – Compilation
* – -- ''Integral Psychology The Psychological System of Sri Aurobindo (In Original Words and in Elaborations)'', Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publications Department, [[Pondicherry (city)|Pondicherry]], 1st edition 1986; 2nd edition 1999 {{ISBN|81-7058-540-6}}

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