Girindrasekhar Bose was born on 31 January 1887. He was an early 20th-century Indian psychoanalyst, the first president (1922–1953) of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society.
Bose carried on a twenty-year dialogue with Sigmund Freud. Known for disputing the specifics of Freud’s Oedipal theory, he has been pointed to by some as an early example of non-Western contestations of Western methodologies. Apart from this, he also started the first general hospital psychiatry unit (GHPU) in Asia at the R.G. Kar Medical College, Calcutta in 1933.
