The Shudosho programme is run by Dr Prem Naidoo who is a consultant psychiatrist with many years of experience in psychotherapy and has a special interest in Anxiety-Depression and related conditions. He currently works as a consultant in private practice in Sydney.
After attending boarding school in Swaziland, Prem started studying medicine in Scotland at St Andrews. Completing his training at the University of Manchester he trained in psychiatry in the UK and in Australia and became a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
He has very widespread experience in psychiatry having worked and trained at more than twenty hospitals and community centres in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. He has worked as the director of two acute psychiatric units in Australia. Prem currently runs his private practice from rooms in St Leonards.
His special interest is in the treatment of anxiety disorders starting from his earliest involvement with psychiatry when he innovatively combined medication treatments with psychological therapies.
He believes passionately that compassion and relatedness to the self and world are fundamentally important in the treatment and healing of anxiety and depression and that this foreshadows the self belief that makes a reasonable, contented and balanced life possible.
Apart from his professional commitments Prem has also set up an educational charitable project in Thailand which he has been running for the last six years. The Thai-ED project is an attempt to help poorer pupils from the north-east of Thailand (Isaan) stay in school longer in order that they might have an opportunity to gain some meaningful employment. This exposure has led inevitably to a deeper comprehension of the suffering of the less privileged in our world. It has also fuelled an interest in the Theravada Buddhist practices of Thailand. Thai-ED has been a real world exercise in the understanding of compassionate practice.
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After attending boarding school in Swaziland, Prem started studying medicine in Scotland at St Andrews. Completing his training at the University of Manchester he trained in psychiatry in the UK and in Australia and became a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
He has very widespread experience in psychiatry having worked and trained at more than twenty hospitals and community centres in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. He has worked as the director of two acute psychiatric units in Australia. Prem currently runs his private practice from rooms in St Leonards.
His special interest is in the treatment of anxiety disorders starting from his earliest involvement with psychiatry when he innovatively combined medication treatments with psychological therapies.
He believes passionately that compassion and relatedness to the self and world are fundamentally important in the treatment and healing of anxiety and depression and that this foreshadows the self belief that makes a reasonable, contented and balanced life possible.
Apart from his professional commitments Prem has also set up an educational charitable project in Thailand which he has been running for the last six years. The Thai-ED project is an attempt to help poorer pupils from the north-east of Thailand (Isaan) stay in school longer in order that they might have an opportunity to gain some meaningful employment. This exposure has led inevitably to a deeper comprehension of the suffering of the less privileged in our world. It has also fuelled an interest in the Theravada Buddhist practices of Thailand. Thai-ED has been a real world exercise in the understanding of compassionate practice.
www.edfthai.org/en/?page=donor_Voices&id=67
Mai Techo
Mai is our administrative assistant. She is the primary coordinator of Thai-ED.
She is a Theravadan Buddhist who has been involved in meditation since her childhood in Isaan.
Mai is our administrative assistant. She is the primary coordinator of Thai-ED.
She is a Theravadan Buddhist who has been involved in meditation since her childhood in Isaan.