OHSU counselor tours with memoir of Laos imprisonment

Posted Apr 19, 2009

Bounsang Khamkeo, a behavioral health counselor at the OHSU Avel Gordly Center for Healing, is an addictions treatment expert and offers behavioral health counseling in Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, Haka), Vietnamese, Thai, Laotian, French and English. He grew up in Laos but left at the age of seventeen to study in France. Thirteen years later, in 1973, he returned to his homeland and was imprisoned. “I Little Slave” is an account of his seven-year struggle in prison to stay alive and keep sane in spite of harsh physical privation and endless psychological abuse. Throughout April, Khameko will be touring with the book with speaking engagements set for Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Voice of America, and Georgetown University. A Grand Rounds will be organized by the Department of Psychiatry at OHSU later in the year.