Series: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Clinical Practice During Pandemic
Pol-Pot Trauma Reaches Our Shores: Online Interviews During COVID-19
Thursday December 3, 2020
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT
A Live Program on Zoom
Gilbert Kliman, MD
Medical Director,
Children’s Psychological Health Center
Chairperson of the Board of Trustees,
Harlem Family Institute and Harlem Psychoanalytic Institute
Honorary Member, Contemporary Freudian Society
Overview
A traumatized Cambodian mother and child were seen forensically by a senior psychoanalyst. The task was assisted by psychoanalytic self-awareness and countertransferential knowledge. Mother, a Pol Pot survivor was raped in a chaotic refugee camp during her childhood. Her daughter was, years later, sexually harassed in a negligent U.S. kindergarten. Transgenerational influences were powerful sources of psychological damage for both mother and child. Videorecordings of interviews will be shown during the seminar. Epigenesis, moral injury and betrayal effects will be discussed as will the persisting attachment from prior in-person interviews in facilitating the online work. The report and a deposition resulted in a generous financial settlement.
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