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Professor Amitava Chatterjee, M.Sc. (Cal), Ph.D. (IISc, Bangalore) was awarded Senior Fulbright Visiting Fellowship and was associated with Institute for Social research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. During his stay at Michigan he visited many Academic Institutions and Universities in USA and during his return journey he visited several universities in UK. After completing his post-graduate course in Psychology from Calcutta University, Professor Chatterjee joined Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore on a Govt. of India scholarship and completed his Ph.D. degree. After that he joined Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur as a teacher and retired from service as a Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences. He was pioneer in introducing Human Resource Development Course at IIT. He became sectional president of the Psychology and Behavioural sciences section of the Indian Science Congress in platinum Jubilee Session, 1988. After his retirement from IIT, he worked for several

The Telegraph, 22nd Feb., 2009 Heal with song & dance A STAFF REPORTER Rabindra Bharati University’s BT Road campus will next month become the first institution to start a performing arts therapy course approved by the University Grants Commission (UGC). “Doctors and NGOs already use music and dance to treat those suffering from pain, stress, depression and lack of self-respect. But now we have a structured course, complete with professional training in physiotherapy and psychology, that will help them do the same job better,” said Kathak danseuse Amita Dutt, the dean of fine arts. Arpita Chatterjee, the course co-ordinator, said the UGC had sounded out the university last year for some new job-oriented courses. “We had suggested a couple of courses to them, of which performing arts therapy was selected for financial aid.” Classes will be conducted in the evening. “We will begin with a certificate course and later introduce a two-year diploma course and a three-year advanced diplom

15.12.2008 It's a wonderful conference. Here, I find many members of this group in person. Electronic self is now converted into real self. It is excellent. We are all enjoying here, we are talking about Indianpsychologists group here and there, its significant contribution in development of psychological pursuits among the young generation. Some are searching for high surfers of this group also. Yesterday, Inauguration was held in the senate hall of IIT. Prof Vindhya gave president torch to Next President, Prof. Arvind Sinha of IIT., Kanpur. Today, scintific program along with poster sessions are going on. I have seen many new areas where in our young psychologists are looking into. One symposium was held about accreditation issue on which area we have discussed in this group long back. Prof. Campbell, President of British Psychological Society and Dr. Saths Cooper focused on the European and South African system. I am writing this letter to you as I am feeling your presence in di

Khoob swapna chilo cha bagan dekhar. Aaj sakal belay beriye parlam Maligaon er pathe. Pathe parlo Borabari Tea estate. Nijeke samlate parlam na. Gari theke neme parlam. Paharer dhal beye cha patar gaach. Oh! swapna jeno emon bhabe dhara debe bujhte pari ni. Ekta berar madhye duto meye chayer bij bachche. je bij gulo phete jachche, seguli ke alada karche. Baki guloke bali diye dheke rakhbe. Rojkar taka holo Rs. 30. Class IV parjanta parar pare dropout. Ektu dure ekjon seed bed e jwal dichche. take dine tinbar jal dite hoy jhanjri kore. Pashei ekta doba, pahar theke jwal asche tate. Sekhan theke se jwal nichche. 3500 ta seeder bed dekhar matan. Ektu dure giye dekhlam ekjon da diye gaacher matha katche. Muhuri janalo 18" r upar er anshe kata hochche. Ektu agei dekhechilam je ekjon clean karche gaach gulo ke. Clean karar samay ekta dale jeno ekta pata thake sei bhabe clean hochche. Duto pata eksathe thakle seta clean hobe. Sardar dekhche seed bed e jal deoa, gaach kata egulo. Eder DA

"Hi, I am alcoholic", Have we ever heard of it ? Possibly not, because alcoholic patients try to alien themselves assuming that they have committed serious offense in life. Alcoholic anonymous is a support group who takes care of alcoholics through resurrection program, and provides support to their children, wives, and parents through counselling and spiritual (not religious) principles. Yesterday, in Guwahati, by the support of Mind-India, I visited resurrection programs of AA in Bonda. There I have heard of the above statement. They do not feel shy rather accepts it and pledge to the spiritual power for arresting alcoholism through 12-point programs. Today, I am very much fortunate to attend Allatin (support group of alcoholic father's kids) and parents' group at Don Bosco school. I have learnt a lot from them. Those who are coming to Guwahati, please visit Bonda resurrection centre and meet Ms. Reina at Don Bosco school on Sunday. School is near by IITG. You can

"Hi, I am alcoholic", Have we ever heard of it ? Possibly not, because alcoholic patients try to alien themselves assuming that they have committed serious offense in life. Alcoholic anonymous is a support group who takes care of alcoholics through resurrection program, and provides support to their children, wives, and parents through counselling and spiritual (not religious) principles. Yesterday, in Guwahati, by the support of Mind-India, I visited resurrection programs of AA in Bonda. There I have heard of the above statement. They do not feel shy rather accepts it and pledge to the spiritual power for arresting alcoholism through 12-point programs. Today, I am very much fortunate to attend Allatin (support group of alcoholic father's kids) and parents' group at Don Bosco school. I have learnt a lot from them. Those who are coming to Guwahati, please visit Bonda resurrection centre and meet Ms. Reina at Don Bosco school on Sunday. School is near by IITG. You can l

Very nice experience I get through the workshop. The workshop was held in the Indian Institute of Psychometry,Kolkata yesterday, 21.11.2008. Ms. Rama Manna convened the workshop. Approximate 30 students came from the background of Psychology and Social work. Initially, I asked their specific interests in data analysis of SPSS. Finally, I noted that they are mainly limited within the boundaries of univariate and bivariate statistics. I taught them how to understand the data properties through graphs (stem-leaf, bar diagram with NPC, and box whisker plot) and statistics (Standard error of mean, skewness, kurtosis etc.) by SPSS. They have learnt how to transfer files, how to select cases for analysis, how to control missing data in the analysis, how to prepare summary report of statistical data for PG dissertation. Finally, I taught them dendogram and principal component analysis and how to name the variables out of analysis. Besides, I have observed the followings: **The dissertation t

Performing art therapy = Music (instrument + song)+ dance+drama. Introduction to Psychology: Perception of Musical patterns;(Gestalt theory) Musical Intelligence;(Olav Skill's theory) Thinking and imagery process;(Moreno's theory) Learning;(Pavlov,Skinner,Titchner,Gestalists,Tolman) Musical communication:joint attention,intention and emotion; Musical Identity; Consciouness Effect of music on cognition, emotion and psycho motor coordination Cognitive Neuropsychology and Music [Book on Music therapy and rehabilitation] Theory of arousal and effect of music on stress (John Slobda) Principles of psycho-motor coordination Psychoanalytic, creative, behavioral and receptive music therapy Freud Literature: What is dance therapy? Dance Therapy 1. Cognition: Learning music requires focused attention, abstract, relational thinking and fluid intelligene (called "executive control"). Study: Effects of Music Training on Brain and Cognitive Development in Under-Privileged 3- to 5-

Over all kalke khoob participation peyechilam. Pure, Applied er Mam, ebong students, Education dept. er Mam ebong students niye khoob bhalo ekta gathering hoyechilo. Bhebechilam je lunch er par aar keu thakbe na, seta hoy ni. Sabai chilo. Pratham seat theke shesh seat parjanta sabai sarakkhan participate karechilo. Haldia, narendrapur theke amader uttarpara parjanta sabai esechilo. Ebar boli tara ki shikhlo ? Research karte gele new construct ba variable ki kare explore karte hoy? Take operationally define karte hoy ki bhabe ? Operational definition ta thik holo ki na seta ki bhabe bujhte hoy ? Tar janye ki bhabe item design karte hoy ? Item gulor validity ki bhabe test karte hoy ? Item cluster theke abar ki bhabe new construct beroy ? Dimension gulo r validity ki kare ber karte hoy ? Finally research report lekhar khetre introduction ebong review of literature ki bhabe likhte hoy Statistical tools er madhye principal component analysis, multidimensional scaling, discriminant function

Today, I taught basic assumptions of multivariate statistics and principles of Stepwise regression analysis. This is attended by Dr. Ishita Chatterjee (CU), Dr. Chandana Aditya (BK Girls' College), Ms. Atri Sengupta (BESU) and Ms. Shivani Santosh (ISI). Time: 3-5 pm. Assignment: Find out problems related to 4 issues (a) inter relation among set of vars, (b)Strong predictor (c) linear combination of strong predictors.

Jadi tare nai chini... Kalke khoob advut ekta ghatana holo. Ek student tar madhye asambhab prativa gulo ke helay phele diye exam result bhalo karbar janye ghar gunje parche. Jathariti exam. result poor. Ami dekhlam besh gaaner gala ache. Barite gaaner culture o ache. Nije tabla bajate pare. Request karar par gaan gailo : " Jadi tare nai chini go se ki amay nebe chine ei naba falguner dine---- jani ne, jani ne" Oke jigges karlam dharo boi tomay ei kahta ta bolche, tumi tabe ki uttar debe. - janina Ami bollam dekho kabi kato sundar bhabe gaaner madhya diye ei uttar diye gechen. Tumi jadi kauke na chinte paro, seo tomay chinte parbe na. O hasche, tarpor bollo tabe ami ki bhabe parbo ? - take chenrar matan kare paro, take chinle se tomay chinbe, tomar exam (naba falgune) er samay sei tomay chinte parbe, tai take chenar matan kare paro.

It seems to me that spiritual intelligence is one's ability to understand and to control 7 body-mind subsystems.

For last 2 days, I trained some Professors of AICTE approved colleges of different states at VGSOM, IIT., Kharagpur. There I taught practical leadership by the invitation of Prof. Biplab Kumar Dutta. During the training, I made some team building exercises using infrastructure project. Following steps were followed: 1. Developing creative consciousness by brain storming the vision statement of projects; 2. Selection of 2 vision statements on empowerment and national integration; 3. Enabling them in formulating the projects; 4. Empowering and energizing them to design 2 models based on their project plans; 5. Describing the projects; 6. Facing conflict situation; 7. Creating trust on self, task, principles and on vision 8. Finally analysis of their perception to self and to others and to the total training process. I have experienced many ups and downs in developing and managing creative consciousness. ************************************ In another session on Competency Development for

Learning barrier in classrooms RITH BASU CLASS ACT: Participants of the study on learning disorder among schoolchildren. Picture by Sanjoy Chattopadhyaya Characters like Ishan Awasthi of Taare Zameen Par are not difficult to find in city schools, a study by the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) has revealed. Over 30 per cent of the 25 Class V students who took part in the study, conducted last year in association with St Mary’s Orphanage and Day School, had some sort of learning disorder. The performances of the students in a programme called Fast ForWord were monitored over three months. “Auditory or visual disorders, caused by both hemispheres of the brain not developing simultaneously, is a common deterrent to academic proficiency. The problem of every child with this disorder may not be as acute as Ishan’s, but it comes in the way of him doing well in class,” said D. Dutta Roy of ISI’s Psychology Research Unit. He stressed the importance of detecting these problems early. “We used

Yesterday (28.4.08), I was honored by the CBI officers to give lecture on " Psychological Stress Management" Below is my speech. Definition of Stress There has been a considerable debate about definition of stress. Stress is often researched as stimulus, response and process. As stimulus, it is the environmental agent or stressor, as person, it is the non-specific response. And as process it is the cognitive appraisal system. Current discussion will give much emphasis on stress as process variable (Lazarus, 1966). There are two processes – primary and secondary. Primary process is person’s realization that something is at stake and secondary process is concerned with identification and availability of coping resources to deal with threat, harm or challenge. Therefore, stress is not as the cause rather is embedded in our cognitive appraisal system. This definition gives this notion as stress is not always unpleasant. Unpleasant depends upon one’s cognitive appraisal system.

Today is ' Paila Baishakh '. I composed this poem " Natun asha natun pran , natun sure natun gaan" I received several messages. The messages in poem form is given below: 1. Jhore gelo aaj basanter pata, niye jaksathe sab malinata, baishakhersakale laguk prane anander ei sparsha, mon theke janai aaj shubho nababarsha - Mithu, teacher, sarada school. 2. Natun din natun gaan, natun bhorer alo, natun prane khushir hawa, natun bachor elo - Debasree, Edu dept., CU 3.A cup of hot hello,, a plate of crispy wishes, a spoon of sweet smiles, and a slice of great success. Hope this makes us new year. - Parag, IT marketing. 4. Naboborshe dola laguk mone, asha jaguk prane, - Rumki di 5. Notun gane Natun prane natun bachor sabar mone - Tanushree 6. Purano diary, purano khata hoye gelo aaj smriti. Nabo halkhata likhe debe tai barshobaran giti - Pt Sanjukta 7. Natun ushar natun alo, natun bachor katuk bhalo - Gargi, Mgt trainee 8. Natun sakal, natun alo, sonda matir gandho bhalo, n

Dear Dr. Wade Pickren Thank you for your interest in studying the origin of mental health services of India. Sorry, I am not expert to speak about this issue as I have not done any research on this area. But based on my own experience, I am trying to give you some insight. Others can contribute more. ****** Indian mental health services are developed in Guru griha (Ashram) where in younger students learn basic principles of stress adjustment by interacting with nature. These principles are: 1. Self-awareness 2. Autonomy 3. Creativity 4. Trust 5. Self evaluation And the nature is of two types : Physical and Psychological. Physical nature refers to natural surroundings like Khiti (land), aup (water), tej (energy), marut (air) and Byom (sky). All these are unbounded, multidimensional and more complex. Therefore, in guru griha, students are learning how to unbound the self for coping. Like, physical, the psychological nature is very complex, multiaxial, and unbounded. These are: a) Kam

Children who are poor in school performance often lack the cognitive abilities like listening accuracy, phonological awareness, working memory, comprehension etc. Listening accuracy is the ability to discriminate acoustic sweeps. Phonological awareness is ability to distinguish parts of speech, such as syllables and phonemes presented auditorily. Working memory implies a system for the temporary holding and manipulation of information during the performance of a range of cognitive tasks. Fast ForWord Language Gateway Edition product software of Scientific Learning Corporation aims to improve above abilities through it's web based 7 training exercises. These are Block commander (BC), Old MacDonald’s Flying Farm (OM), Phoneme Identification (PI), Phonic Match (PM), Phonic Words (PW), Language Comprehension Builder (LCB), Block Commander (BC). Aim of this study was to assess criterion related validity of the said product following request from the Scientific learning corpo

20.2.08 Gave lecture on Discriminant function analysis at DIPR. I started from Kolkata to Delhi by Kingfisher airlines. 21.2.08 Gave lecture on Correspondence analysis at DIPR. I started from Delhi to Kolkata by Deccan airlines.

Can music soothe the mayhem in your mind? Yes, says this therapist Font Size - -A +A Express news service Posted online: Monday , February 18, 2008 at 12:32:30 Updated: Monday , February 18, 2008 at 12:51:21 Print Email To Editor Post Comments http://www.expressi ndia.com/ latest-news/ Can-music- soothe-the- mayhem-in- your-mind- Yes-says- this-therapist/ 274239/ Kolkata, February 17 Can music soothe the mayhem in your mind? One of the earliest pioneers of a non-invasive healing therapy — vibrio acoustic therapy—Olav Skille was in Kolkata to create awareness about the treatment on Sunday. For the uninitiated, vibrio acoustics is all about treating psychological conditions with the use of music and/or sound vibrations. Skille’s approach on vibrio acoustics narrows down the approach to giving “low frequency vibrations”, music or no music. The vibrations are generated through transducers built into a bed or chair. “All you have to do is to just lie down and enjoy for 23 minutes. At the e

We are today celebrating Saraswati pujo, the Goddess of learning.

Overall, the program is running well under the leadership of Dr. Jayanti Basu. In the inauguration at National Library, some speakers pointed at use of statistics in writing research papers. Simple qualitative data analysis is not sufficient as it fails to assess multivariate properties of research decisions. Dr. Madhabi Chatterjee of US presented a nice model where in we can use nested properties of psychological variables. She proposed such model during therapy or interventions. I added difference in the nested properties of pre during and post intervention periods. Those who are using cognitive behaviour therapy can use this model. Recently, I published one article on this issue but not nested properties using box-plot analysis. The reference is given below: Dutta Roy, D. (2008). Assessing Validity of Web-Based Computer Adaptive Training Modules, Journal Of The Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, Vol. 34, No.1, January, 127-136. For last few months, I am thinking to organize one

Both tried to explore the roots of anxiety.Freud assumes that anxiety occurs due to repressed energies. Repressed energies are coming out in disguise to consciousness from unconsciousness. And when individual feels the actual image of repressed energies, anxiety occurs. Han's phobia is one example. To Freud, unconsciousness is reservoir of energy. In Gita, we find that consciousness is reservoir of energy. Energy comes through 'Nishkam karma'. In Mahabharata, we have seen Eklabya character who actually follows principles of nishkam karma. When man acquires knowledge and skills through nishkam karma, he becomes more confident. His self-efficacy level will be very high. Drona has understood so he exploited Eklabya. In Ramayana, I find Hanuman character as the nishkam karmi. Person who does not acquire knowledge or skills through nishkma karma, he feels feeling of insecurity, fear of failure in front of challenges. Freud highlighted testing the reality principle of Ego. Nish