From Nirvikalpa

Guide to tap your untapped potential, the Scientific Way

How does one connect with the untapped potential within? Now, Nirvikalpa, Center for Human Potential provides an answer for this much debated question, and gives it a scientific basis. The center's proprietary methodologies are based on the work of its promoter, Dr Shyam K Bhat, MD. It is a research based, practical, transformative, and transpersonal approach, that synthesizes western science and eastern wisdom distilled with insights from neuropsychiatry, psychoanalysis, existential philosophy, medical science, Jungian psychology, psychosynthesis, Vedanta, Zen Buddhism, and eastern healing traditions.
Through its not for profit arm, Nirvikalpa Trust, the center offers free services to educational institutions, and rural and underprivileged communities.
For individuals and corporates, the center conducts seminars and offers retreats in areas of personal transformation and growth, apart from consulting services and workshops.
Dr. Shyam Bhat
Dr Shyam K Bhat, MD is an integrative medicine specialist, physician, and neuropsychiatrist. Dr Bhat is
board certified by the American Board of Internal medicine (ABIM), the American Board of Psychiatry
and Neurology (ABPN), with additional certification in psychosomatic medicine, and clinical hypnosis,
making him one of only 300 such physicians in the world, and the only doctor in India with these
qualifications.
In 2006, Dr Bhat became the founding director of the integrative Medicine services at Springfield, Illinois,
USA. In 2009, Dr Bhat moved back to Bangalore to start Nirvikalpa: The Center for Human Potential.
He integrates western medicine and psychiatry, with eastern healing traditions, meditation, and Vedanta, to
facilitate mind-body wellness, and personal development.
Dr Bhat also consults with organizations and addresses audiences in the United States, and India, on stress
management, leadership development, integrative medicine, mind-body wellness, and the psychology of
Yoga.

Dr Bhat graduated with an MBBS, from Bangalore Medical College in 1996, and trained in psychiatry and
internal medicine in England, and the United States. After completing a 5 year combined residency
program in internal medicine and psychiatry at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Dr
Bhat joined the faculty at SIU, where he was the founder and medical director of the Integrative Medicine
services at the Center for Living at St John's Hospital, Springfield, Illinois.
He serves on the editorial boards of Health Services Insights, and Clinical Medicine: Case reports. He is a
member of the American Psychiatric Association, the American College of Physicians, and the American
Society of Clinical Hypnosis.
His writings have been published in journals such as the American Journal of Psychiatry, Journal of
Clinical Psychiatry, and various magazines and newspapers in India and the United States. He authors a
popular blog for physicians on Medscape.com. He has conducted a writing workshop for physicians, under
the auspices of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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