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Life is beautiful, experience it: Kranz
Life is beautiful and one has to experience the environment, while technology plays an important part, one should not let it take over our lives, says Peter. In his brief stay in the city the professor has delivered lectures on stress management, counseling, psycho drama and play therapy not only at NIMH but in other institutes as well.
Modern man is racing ahead and breaking all technological frontiers, yet he is missing out on the basics of life
Hyderabad: “I do not have a mobile phone and I am managing my life very well. People are getting so much attached to the mobile phone that they do not understand that there are other important aspects of life,” says the 75-year-old Peter Lewis Kranz, Professor in Clinical Psychology from the University of Texas who is in the city for a brief stint with the National Institute for the Mentally Handicapped (NIMH).
Life is beautiful and one has to experience the environment, while technology plays an important part, one should not let it take over our lives, says Peter. In his brief stay in the city the professor has delivered lectures on stress management, counseling, psycho drama and play therapy not only at NIMH but in other institutes as well.
With a specialisation in race relations, Peter says that society has come a long way in matters of integration. A pioneer in the United States of America, Peter has been instrumental in starting classes for people from different races. He says, “In the 70s demographics between black and white was limited. We started a programme where people visited each others homes for seven days and it broke many a barrier.”
When asked about the role of Mohammed Ali played in the fight for equal rights in USA, Peter said that initially people did not understand his defiance but later they realised his strong convictions and he was an iconic figure. There has been a major shift from racial to integration. Stress and depression are modern day maladies and they can be tackled with good professional advice and there is a need for counselors in schools.
He says a majority of the schools in the USA have counselors and wants to see schools in India too with at least a counselor in each school. We spend a lot of time teaching math and history but not human issues. Do we teach how to cope with things when they do not go our way? Do we teach how to have a relationship? Do we teach how to rear children? He asks? While the modern man is racing ahead and breaking all technological frontiers, he is missing out on teaching the basics of life. Prof Peter Lewis Kranz is in India for the first time on the invitation of Dr G Sri Krishna, faculty in Rehabilitation Psychology, NIMH.
By TP Venu
