How long does it take to read Shamans, Mystics, and Doctors?
a psychological inquiry into India and its healing traditions
Shamans, Mystics, and Doctors by Sudhir Kakar takes about 5 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 37 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1982. 306 pages, about 84,150 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Sudhir Kakar, a psychoanalyst and scholar, brilliantly illuminates the ancient healing traditions of India embodied in the rituals of shamans, the teachings of gurus, and the precepts of the school of medicine known as Ayurveda.
Subjects: Mentally ill, Healing, Care, India, Psychosomatic Medicine, Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
