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Dr Luh Ketut Suryani is a professor
of psychiatry at Udayana University in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. She is
the chairperson of the Committee Against Sexual Abuse (CASA), and the founder
and director of the Suryani Institute for Mental Health (SIMH), an institute
she has founded to help people with mental illnesses, through treatment,
education, and community-based prevention projects. She has written numerous
books and papers on spirituality and mental health, has received awards
and international acclaim, and appears on her own weekly television show,
which focuses on women, family, as well as political and cultural issues
impacting her beloved Bali. She is often referred to as the Mother of Bali.
She is an expert on Balinese culture and spiritual practices, author of
the books Balinese People, Trance & Possession in Bali, Mokhsa: A new
way of Life, and Living in the Spirit. She is a meditation guru and a renowned
Balinese healer. In her academic and clinical practice, she attempts to
bridge indigenous Balinese spirituality and values with western psychiatry
and psychology. She has intruduced the biopsycho-spirit-sociocultural approach
to psychiatry and developed the Spiritual-Hypnosis Assisted Therapy (SHAT)
for the treatment of psychological trauma. SHAT was the main psychological
intervention successfully used to treat victims of both the 2002 and 2005
terrorist attacks in Bali. |
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