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Charis E. Cladouhos, MD (she/her/hers)

Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist/Psychoanalyst
Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute/Tufts University School of Medicine
Waban, Massachusetts, United States

Charis Cladouhos is an adult, child, and adolescent psychiatrist and psychoanalyst on the faculty at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She has an interest in physician wellness and has been course director for The Healers Art, an experiential elective for first year medical students, which explores service, calling, and the soulful challenges involved in entering the liminal space of medical training. She developed the first community-based physician retreat for Tufts Medical Center in collaboration with Canyon Ranch Health and Wellness Resort during the pandemic and has lectured at both Tufts and BPSI on first responder trauma. She is a faculty member for the Child and Adult Training Programs at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (BPSI) where she has taught all levels of child development, adult continuous case conferences, as well as BPSI's first course on developmental trauma. She has presented case material on approaches to traumatized children and parents at both BPSI and Tufts and has longstanding experience treating children and parents intensively using principles of play therapy, neurocognitive assessment, school consultation, and neuropharmacologic intervention.She is recently trained in EMDR, Deep Brain Reorienting and Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy. She currently teaches the 6-week elective Psychoanalysis and Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy and was interviewed recently for “Off the Couch”, a podcast sponsored by the International Psychoanalytic Association, to describe the synergy between and harm reduction benefits of relational psychoanalysis and adjunctive ketamine treatment. She is the current Chair of the Psychoanalytic Special Interest Group for the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation and maintains a private practice in Boston. Her interests include the integration of various forms of treatment enhancing modalities into a relational psychoanalytic framework in order to increase treatment efficacy and reduce iatrogenic harm.

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