Olga Kharitidi, M.D.
Dr Kharitidi is a Board Certified psychiatrist with a general practice of psychiatry and a specialty in working with and treating trauma. She has written many books on ancient and non-traditional methods of healing and personal growth and uses her extensive knowledge of alternative teachings and traditions in her practice of traditional western psychiatry. Regarding the nature of trauma as transformation and development, she has written, ?Ancient cultures understood that human life is a journey with inherent transitions that are innately traumatic, and need to be managed.?
She earned her medical degree at the Novosibirsk State Medical Institute in Russia and performed her psychiatric residency at the HCMC-Regions Psychiatry Training Program in Minneapolis, Minnesota. While practicing psychiatry in a number of traditional inpatient and outpatient settings in Russia and the United States, she has lectured and consulted internationally on a broad range of subjects, including the evolution of the human mind, the nature of subjective experiences, the reality of personal choice and its effect on the environment, and the healing of trauma and its aftermath. In addition to her practice of psychiatry and her many related interests, she is the founder of Cliffhouse Publications.