Background
Dam, Heiman van was born on February 5, 1920 in Leiden, The Netherlands. Son of Machiel and Rika (Knorringa) van Dam.
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Heiman van Dam
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AB, University of Southern California, 1942; Doctor of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1945.
Career
Fellowship child psychiatry, Pasadena (California) Child Guidance Clinic, 1950;
general practice psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, since 1951;
instructor, Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute, since 1959;
co-Chairman of Commission on child psychoanalysis, Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute, 1960-1967;
training and supervising psychoanalyst, Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute, since 1972;
supervisor child and adolescent psychoanalysis, Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, since 1986. Consultant Reiss Davis Child Study Center, 1955-1976, Neighborhood Youth Association, Los Angeles, 1964-1969. Associate clinical professor psychiatry and pediatrics University of California at Los Angeles School Medicine, 1960-1996, clinical professor psychiatry and pediatrics, since 1996.
Visiting supervisor child psychoanalysis San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, 1969-1979, Denver Psychoanalytic Institute, 1972-1974. Member of advisory board Western State University College Law, Fullerton, California, 1965-1983.
Achievements
Membership
Trustee, member education committee Center for Early Education, 1964-1992, vice president, 1978-1979. Board directors Child Development and Psychotherapy Training Program, Los Angeles,1975-1980, president, 1975-1977. Board directors Los Angeles Child Development Center, 1977-1986, treasurer, 1978-1980.
Member cult clinic Jewish Family Service, LosAngeles, 1978-1986. Board directors Lake Arrowhead Crest Estates, since 1990. Served to captain Medical Corps Army of the United States, 1946-1948.
Member American Psychoanalytic Association (commission on ethics 1977-1980), Association Child Psychoanalysis (councillor 1966-1969, secretary 1972-1974, member nominating com.1978-1984, membership committee since 1988, Marianne Kris lecturer 1995), International Association Infant Psychiatry (co-chairman program committee 1980-1983), International Society Adolescent Psychiatry (science advising committee since 1988), Phi Beta Kappa.
Connections
Married Barbara C. Strona, October 6,1945. Children: Machiel, Claire Ilena, Rika Rosemary.
