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Office
12301 Wilshire Blvd
Ste 512
Los Angeles, CA 90025Phone+1 888-684-2779
Summary
- Dr. Cassandra Klyman is a psychiatrist based in Los Angeles CA, specializing in psychodynamic, integrative, and forensic psychiatry. She has medical management expertise in bipolar and ADHD illness. She completed her medical education at the University of Michigan Medical School in 1962, followed by an internship at the Children's Hospital of Michigan, a psychiatry residency at the Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University where later she was an Adjunct Professor. Her psychoanalytic training was at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. Dr. Klyman currently serves as a Senior Clinical Consultant at HappierLiving. Her published works appear in national and international journals, with topics ranging from patient management to psychoanalytical perspectives on life events. Her recognitions include many leadership roles in professional societies; she was elected president of the Michigan Psychiatric Society and honored as a Distinguished Life Fellow by the American Psychiatric Association., Fellow of the American College of Forensic Examiners, and the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychiatry. She is on the Faculty of the Chinese American Psychoanalytic Alliance. Her debut novel, Beyond Sadness, will be published in Spring, 2025.
Education & Training
- Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State UniversityResidency, Psychiatry, 1963 - 1966
- Childrens Hospital of MichiganInternship, Transitional Year, 1962 - 1963
- University of Michigan Medical SchoolClass of 1962
Certifications & Licensure
- CA State Medical License 2005 - 2027
- MI State Medical License 1963 - 2018
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychiatry
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Chair of Legislation,Government Insurance committee Michigan Psychoanalytic Society, 2012
- Chair-Psychoanalysis in Medicine Committee Michigan Psychoanalytic Society, 2012
- Chair-House of Delegates Committee Oakland County Medical Society, MI, 2012
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Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 2 citationsA workshop model for educating medical practitioners about optimal treatment of difficult-to-manage patients: utilization of transference-countertransference.Cassandra M. Klyman, Malachy Browne, Carol Austad, Evangeline J. Spindler, Alvin Curtis Spindler
The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry. 2008-12-29 - Mysteries of the void: an analyst's view of female urination.Cassandra M. Klyman
The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry. 2004-01-01 - Widowhood: a painful intrusion into the analytic space.Cassandra M. Klyman
The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. 1994-01-01
Journal Articles
- Children Who Kill:Understanding Our ResponseCassandra M Klyman,M.D., J. of Forensic Psychiatry v.29
- False Confessions:from Freud to fMRIC.M.Klyman,M.D., J. of Forensic Psychiatry v.31
- Death in the Nursery: consequences of post-partum depressionC.M.Klyman,M.D., J of Forensic Psychiatry
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Committees
- member, Program Committee of Michigan Psychoanalytic Society 2006 - 2012
- representing Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry, Specialty Society Delegation 2000 - 2012
- member, Ethics Committee 1998 - 2006
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