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As the author indicates at the conclusion of her article, to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing society “requires education and innovative preventive and therapeutic methods … at all levels of society.” To accomplish this, she has been conducting programs under the auspices of Yayasan Putra Sesana Bali, her non-profit Foundation for Respect in Parent-Child Relationships. The programs are based on Dr. Suryani's bio-psycho-spirit-socio-cultural approach and include training in her specific methods of meditation and relaxation. Dr. Suryani focuses on group work at all age levels, from prenatal to the elderly. The programs include prenatal care, identity and self-concept programs, self-help groups for specific issues, groups for women, teachers, alcohol abuse treatment and rehabilitation, etc. There is a Dream Exploration Group, therapy based on the theory that dreams are a route to the resolution of psychological conflicts and the achievement of insight. The author educates on PTSD through using the media (newspapers, radio, and TV) to explain its meaning. She has assisted victims of the flood at Tejakula, which killed seven people and damaged a village, and victims of the 2002 Kuta bomb blast, using spiritual hypnotherapy regression.
The clinical case examples provide additional insight into how Balinese women overcome the obstacles of a changing society and how they successfully adapt to their changing roles. While the treatment methods used are far from our version of psychodynamic psychotherapy as practiced in the West, they afford us insight into the particular problems of Balinese women and how they are handled by a reputable psychiatrist who is prolife. This view is the opinion of the author only and in no way reflects my own position or that of the Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry.