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Paula Christian-Kliger

About Me

Originally from New York City, Dr. Paula Kliger is a psychoanalyst who graduated from Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, 2005. Dr. Kliger is a clinical psychologist who received her PhD in Clinical Psychology with a minor in Statistical Measurement and Design in 1984 from Wayne State University. She began her career in music. Within the performing arts, she traveled extensively and was significantly influenced to study psychology after Southeast Asia where she sang for US troops and Vietnamese people during the Vietnam War. As the founder and President of Psychological Assets, PC Dr. Kliger developed undergraduate and graduate courses that explored the psychodynamics, multiculturalism and social complexity in identity formation and the shaping of an evolving self. She has written and presented a number of papers on the subject, including in St. Petersburg, Russia, May, 2007. Dr. Kliger has become well known for her work in crisis, disaster and trauma response and recovery. She served as an American Red Cross Disaster Mental Health Volunteer for more than 15 years, training psychologists, nurses, social workers, and psychiatrists to be responders in tragedies like the Oklahoma City Bombing and Hurricane Katrina. Dr. Kliger has been recognized for her research and psycho-analytically informed work in organizations, on Crisis and Trauma Recovery, Family/Business, Leadership Development, Organizational Climate and Culture, and Psychodynamic Process Consultation. Dr. Kliger is Associate Faculty of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and American Psychological Association. Dr. Kliger is married to Paul Kliger; she has one daughter, Sara. In her spare time, Dr. Kliger continues to work in the arts.