Francis G. Lu, MD, is the Luke & Grace Kim Professor in Cultural Psychiatry, Emeritus, at UC, Davis. As a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), Dr. Lu has contributed to the areas of cultural psychiatry including the interface with religion and spirituality, psychiatric education, diversity and inclusion, health equity, and psychiatry and film. Since 1987, he has led or co-led 37 film seminars at Esalen Institute on positive psychological qualities and character virtues, 28 with Brother David Steindl-Rast. Their favorite film of all time is Akira Kurosawa’s “Ikiru” described at: https://www.atpweb.org/jtparchive/trps-37-01-034.pdf He has presented film seminars at C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, C.G. Jung Society of St. Louis, Centre for Applied Jungian Studies, and Door County Summer Institute.  In 2020, the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture awarded him its Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2021, the American College of Psychiatrists awarded him its Distinguished Service Award. He was 1 of 3 co-authors of a successful proposal for including the new diagnostic category of “Religious or Spiritual Problem” in the APA DSM-IV Other Conditions that May Be a Focus of Clinical Attention as a non-pathological category for distressing experiences involving religion or spirituality. 

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