Pol-Pot Trauma Reaches our Shores with Gilbert Kliman online with CFS

Medical Director,

Chairperson of the Board of Trustees,

Harlem Family Institute and Harlem Psychoanalytic Institute

Honorary Member, Contemporary Freudian Society

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.

Gilbert Kliman, MD is the Medical Director of the Children’s Psychological Health Center, is on the board of directors at the Harlem Family Institute, is a certified child, adolescent and adult psychoanalyst, and is the recipient of numerous awards including the Janusz Korczak Award, the APsaA Anna Freud Award, the APsaA Humanitarian Award and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Rieger Award.

For additional questions, contact Connie Stroboulis, Administrative Director, at ConnieS3@aol.com.

Upon registration, you will be asked to attest to your involvement as a student or professional in a mental health field and to maintain confidentiality of any clinical material presented.  You will also be provided a password protected link to call into the video meeting.

General Admission:                         $60

Graduate Students:                         $15

Psychoanalytic Candidates:            $15

CFS Members:                                $50

Application submitted for permission to grant 2.0 CE credits or CME credits for attendance to the full program.

If you have any additional questions about the program, contact Michael Krass, PhD at mlkrass@aol.com or (703) 909-5118.