Gilbert W. Kliman MD

Dr. Gilbert Kliman, MD, graduated from Harvard Medical School. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of The American Psychiatric Association and a Senior Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. After his child psychiatric training and training as an interdisciplinary Fellow in Science and Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he founded three nonprofit organizations dedicated to childhood mental health services. All three are still vigorously functioning. All were derived from the Reflective Network Therapy experience (formerly known as The Cornerstone Therapeutic Preschool Method) he originated with the help of colleagues (including Elissa Burian) at The Center for Preventive Psychiatry, which he founded in 1965. He founded the Foster Care Study Unit at Columbia University College of Medicine and Surgery, Department of Child Psychiatry, where he worked on a systematic test of a derivative of Reflective Network Therapy.

Dr. Gilbert Kliman, MD was continued to refine the method at The Children’s Psychological Health Center, Inc., the third nonprofit he founded, where he has served as Medical Director since 1993. He is responsible for that agency’s clinical research, supervision, and staff training. Using data and video archives from over 40 years of Reflective Network Therapy, he is now developing a controlled, multisite project to further replicate and study RNT’s clinical and IQ outcomes. He has supervised a Bay Area Reflective Network Therapy service site at the Ann Martin Center in Piedmont, California, the Family Services service site in Seattle, a service site at the University City Children’s Center in St. Louis, MO and at the first South American Cornerstone service site, Cornerstone Argentina in Buenos Aires. In addition, Dr. Kliman collaborates with Alexandra Harrison, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, who applies Reflective Network Therapy in an innovative project in Cambridge Massachusetts and works closely with Nancy Blieden Ph.D. providing SKYPE supervision at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute’s Walnut Lake therapeutic preschool . Dr. Kliman’s practice of forensic child psychiatry often leads to his testifying in federal and state courts on socially significant issues of children’s well-being; he has testified in over 300 major cases.