amnath is a 51-year-old
man who owns a grocery
shop in the oldest part of
the city of Delhi. When he
took the unusual step of
coming to see me. a West- ern-trained psychoa~lyst, he w& suffer- ing from an unspecified anxiety which be- came especially acute in the company of his father. He did not call it anxiety, of course, but a "sinking of the heart." This condition was less than three years old, a relatively new development.
Ramnath had, on the other hand, long suffered from...