With Gilbert Kliman

The Harlem Family Institute & the Contemporary Freudian Society  Present Psychoanalytic Interviewing of Trauma Victims During Civil Litigation  With Gilbert Kliman, MD Eleven Wednesdays – Begins October 6, 2021 1:00-2:30pm ET via Zoom

Gilbert Kliman, MD

Program Description:

As an introduction Dr. Kliman will present a few babies and young children who were badly abused. The children varied in age, from a couple of years to 27 years, as the abuse went on for decades. While people suspected it, they did not properly exercise their duty as mandated reporters. This is an extension of the psychoanalytic view of trauma through a forensic lens. The videos capture early childhood trauma, ruptures of attachment, and the cruelty of homosapiens to their own children. Each video and interview shown will be discussed highlighting psychoanalytic themes and considerations. 

The purpose of our seminars is, in part, to train you to be alert to the problems you will likely encounter as you work with asylum seekers separated from families and detained in private jails. We should be mindful that there are reliable reports from the Inspector General that the private detention facilities do not meet humane standards. Through his experiences in foster care, Dr. Kliman has learned that even babies can be mistreated and killed.  

We have known babies to have been starved to the point that they do not thrive. Today since we now know there are babies in care of detention facilities, they are in grave risks for the abuse by cruel people. In Dr. Kliman’s archives there are a number of cases of babies who had been badly abused.  

The nature of human beings includes that we are capable of killing and abusing our own children. Very few species do that. But our species conducts war on itself and uses aggression against its offspring. We have to understand that and realize that the most vulnerable and developmentally consequential people in our society are liable to be harmed for lifetimes and affect our entire community and society as well as suffer themselves for their lifetimes.  

The course will then use an example of real-time crisis through knowledge and experience of the COVID 19 pandemic in South Africa. He also uses video and case which focuses on bereavement of a child, as many bereavements are anticipated to occur in the Pandemic. He will continue to utilize case-study videos on unifying the theory the PTSD, moral injury, transgenerational trauma ending with a forensic follow up on all.

Gilbert Kliman, MD is a Distinguished Life Fellow American Psychiatric Association; Senior Life Fellow, American Academy Child & Adolescent Psychiatry; Certified Psychoanalyst for Children, Adolescents and Adults; Recipient, 2020 Humanitarian Award of The American Psychoanalytic Association; Recipient, Rieger Award of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry;  Medical Director, Preventive Psychiatry Associates, Medical Group, Inc., Medical Director, The Children’s Psychological Health Center, Inc.; Board Chairman, the Harlem Family Institute.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion participants will be able to:

1. List three or more essential components of Reflective Network Therapy

2. Be familiar with what types of special needs preschoolers are likely to be helped by Reflective Network Therapy

3. Explain what is a “briefing” in a therapeutic preschool context

4. Explain what is a “debriefing”

5. Explain and discuss the role of a “field” of information in a social network

6. Describe instances and explain the phenomenon of mentalization

7. Describe the Wechsler Preschool Scale of Intelligence findings among patients treated by Reflective Network Therapy versus control and comparison preschoolers

8. Explain clinically useful resemblances between behaviors of Autism Spectrum Disorder children and behaviors of children with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

9. Describe the role of a therapeutic preschool teacher when working with a child analyst in a therapeutic preschool classroom

10. Discuss the vital role of caregivers and parents in the treatment of preschool patients

Program Fee: $330

To Register:
First, Pay Here, stating the payment is for “Psychoanalytic Interviewing of Trauma Victims”
Then Register Here.

Cancellations: Professionals who are unable to attend a course for which they have registered may obtain a 60% refund if they notify the Registrar (michael.connolly@hfi.nyc) in writing, no later than 24 hours before the class. Less than one day, no tuition will be refunded.

Please note: All participants will be required to sign a confidentiality guarantee. As the series will be recorded on video, participants must also agree to be recorded. Only those who consent to being recorded will be able to earn CE credits as this requires being visible throughout the presentations.

Continuing Education Credits:

NY Social Workers: The PTI-CFS is recognized by the NYS Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0087

NY Psychoanalysts: The PTI-CFS is recognized by the NYS Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts #P-0021. 

NY Licensed Psychologists: The PTI-CFS is recognized by the NYS Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provide of continuing education for Licensed Psychologists #PSY-0017.

DC, MD and VA Psychologists: The CFS is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  The CFS maintains responsibility for this program and its content. 

DC, MD and VA Social Workers: The Social Work Boards of the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia will grant continuing education credits to social workers attending a program offered by an APA authorized sponsor. 

CE credits will only be granted to participants with documented attendance of the entire program and completed online evaluation form.  No partial credit will be offered.  It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CE credits to comply with these requirements.  Upon completion of this program and online evaluation form, participants will be granted 16.5 CE credits.

Important Disclosure Information:

None of the planners and presenters of this program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.