Inside Lives: A Psychoanalytic Study of Ruskin Bond’s Short Stories is an analysis and intra-psychic interpretation of the unique and enigmatic inner world of the characters that inhabit Ruskin Bond’s short stories. The insights derived at in this endeavour are in the complex terms of different defense mechanism such as rationalisation, fantasy, projection, withdrawal, identification, negativism, displacement, and many others which help to understand andgrasp the minds of his characters, and theirbehaviors and attitudes.

The book offers an incisive analysis that enriches the glimpse into the mind of the author, his views on the female psyche, on relationships, and on his own life.