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Vineet Gairola (born 21 February 1996) is a Indian psychologist, author, and researcher at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. He began to receive mass recognition as a scholar for his writings where he brought new perspectives into the field of psychology from the Hindu tradition. He has spoken at psychology programs organized by various organizations. He has received several awards for this work linking psychology and spirituality including the Stephen Mitchell Award from the psychoanalysis division of the American Psychological Association, the Student Research Award by the Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, Division 36 of the American Psychological Association for the Doctoral proposal on the research on the Uttarakhand Himalayas, and the Psychoanalytic Research Exceptional Contribution Award by the International Psychoanalytical Association for the paper titled “Bhagavad Gita and Psychotherapy: A Cure for Soul?”.

Education and early life
Being closely associated with the Himalayas, his artistic and musical sensibilities as a dancer, musician, and psychologist have translated into every sphere of his life. After finishing his schooling from Greenway Modern School, he did his bachelor of arts followed by master of arts in psychology from Ambedkar University Delhi. The clinical training he received at Ambedkar University Delhi led him to expand his clinical thinking. He did his diploma in community mental health from NIMHANS. The psychodynamic training that he received during his master of arts resulted in him getting introduced to analytical psychology through which he developed the idea of the sonic collective unconscious by extending the idea of archetypes given by Carl Jung to sounds. As he belongs to the Garhwal Himalayas, he has done various ethnographic research on deity possession and procession of local mountain goddesses.

Awards and honors
Vineet has become the first Indian to receive several awards such as the Stephen Mitchell Award from the psychoanalysis division of the American Psychological Association for the paper titled “On Wilfred R. Bion’s Way of Being: Linking Truth, Thought, and Nostalgia” in which he wrote about how Wilfred Bion is a Psychoanalytic Mystic who developed his concept of O through the sound of Om, the Student Research Award by the Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, Division 36 of the American Psychological Association for the Doctoral proposal on the research on the Uttarakhand Himalayas, the Psychoanalytic Research Exceptional Contribution Award by the International Psychoanalytical Association for the paper titled “Bhagavad Gita and Psychotherapy: A Cure for Soul?”, the Excellence in Research Award by the [Indian Institute of Technology] , and the Asian Student Membership Scholarship by the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Selected publications

 * Gairola, V. (2021). History of medical body: Demystifying the continuum of psychiatry and psychoanalysis. European Psychiatry, 64(S1), S387-S388. https://doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.1038
 * Gairola, V. (2021). On Wilfred R. Bion’s way of being: Linking truth, thought, and nostalgia. Psychoanalytic Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pap0000375
 * Gairola, V., & Mishra, P. K. (2020). COVID-19 turned upside down: A psychological perspective. Pedagogy of Learning, 6(4), 1-7. http://pedagogyoflearning.com/october-2020-volume-6-issue-4/
 * Gairola, V., & Mishra, P. K. (2019). An overview of school climate and student outcomes in the Indian context. Anweshan: Journal of Education, 10(1), 33-49. ISSN: 2249-3794.
 * Gairola, V., Mishra, P.K. (2022). Bhagavad Gita and Psychotherapy: A Cure for Soul? In: Sia, S.K., Crane, L.S., Jain, A.K., Bano, S. (eds.), Understanding Psychology in the Context of Relationship, Community, Workplace and Culture. Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2693-8_15
 * Gairola, V. (Winter, 2021-2022). Geography, psychology, music, and spirituality: A glimpse of dasien in the Uttarakhand Himalayas. The Peace Psychologist, 31(1), 38-40. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54e92fe3e4b035a09d9e9bf0/t/62eb30a255ad624fd0de95cf/1659580582083/Winter+2022_The+Peace+Psychologist_compressedUpdated.pdf
 * Gairola, V. (2021, August 24). Bhagavad Gita can contribute to psychology. The Hindu. https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/bhagavad-gita-can-contribute-to-psychology/article36084204.ece