Dr. Mali Mann

Mali Mann, M.D., is Training and Supervising Analyst as well as an Associate Supervisor of Child Analysis at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. She is the chair of North American Committee of Child and Adolescent psychoanalysis/IPA. She has a private practice in child, adolescent and adult psychiatry and psychoanalysis in Palo Alto and San Francisco. Dr. Mann is an adjunct clinical professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science. She teaches and supervises psychiatry residents and child psychiatry fellows. She is a member of Pegasus Physicians at Stamford University, a forum for sharing with other physician poets. Recently, the Stadler Fellow for Pegasus Event at Stanford selected one of her poem. Dr. Mann also published several papers: “Immigrant Parents and their Emigrant Adolescents: The Tension of Inner and Outer Worlds;” “Shame veiled and unveiled”, “Aggression in Children: Origins, Manifestation, and Management through play”, and “The Formation and Development of Ethnic Identity.” Her area of expertise includes child development, motherhood, sociocultural issues, language development, and shame affect in clinical situation. She has an interest in applied psychoanalysis, using principles of child psychoanalysis in day care centers and working with children of immigrant parents. Mali’s community service takes her to Mexico as a member of Los Medicos Voladores (The Flying Doctors), where she visits orphans and assists the orphanage staff in a small village near Ensenada and Indio, California.