Anand C. Paranjpe obtained his PhD at Pune University and conducted post-doctoral research at Harvard University under a Fulbright and Smith-Mundt grant. In 1967 he started teaching at Simon Fraser University in Canada, where he is currently Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Humanities. He is Fellow of Canadian Psychological Association and of the National Academy of Psychology (India).

His major publications include Theoretical psychology: The meeting of East and West (1984) and Self and identity in modern psychology and Indian thought (Plenum, 1998). He co-edited with Professors K.R. Rao and Ajit Dalal the Handbook of Indian Psychology (2008). His more recent publication is a book titled Psychology in the Indian tradition (2016; 2017) which he co-authored with Prof. K. Ramkrishna Rao as its first author. He was invited by the Indian Council of Philosophical Research as National Visiting Professor in 2010-2011 and was recognized as Distinguished Psychologist by the National Academy of Psychology (India) in 2021.

Introduction, 1. The concept of regression in psychoanalysis, 2. Conceptual foundations of Yoga, 3. The concept of prati-prasava: a Yogic view of regression, 4. Patañjali's view of prati-prasava, continued, 5. Kriy¿ Yoga, 6. Looking at Freud's ideas within his cultural context and in an intercultural context, 7. Converging trends of thought within and across cultural traditions, 8. Convergence, complementarity, and conclusion