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ABOUT DIANE PERLMAN

Diane Perlman is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been applying knowledge and skills from clinical practice and other social sciences, to political phenomena with a primary purpose of tension reduction, violence prevention, and conflict transformation. Using a therapeutic, healing approach to conflict, it is possible to make conscious, thoughtful, deliberate interventions designed to produce optimal outcomes.

Licensed clinical psychologist - individual, couple, family therapy, Jungian oriented analytical psychotherapy, psychoneuroimmunology, trauma, EMDR, mediation, cooperative divorce coaching

Political psychologist - psychology of nuclearism, terrorism, ethnopolitical conflict, ending cycles of violence, truth, reconciliation, aplolgy and forgiveness processes in healing from protracted collective trauma

* Co-chair, Committee on Global Violence and Security of Division 48, Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence of the American Psychological Association and Psychologists for Social Responsibility * Member, TRANSCEND Practitioner Peacebuilders Network * Psychological Consultant, Global Education Motivators * Vice President, The Philadelphia Project for Global Security * Liaison to Psychology community, Global Nonviolent Peace Force * Founding member and Research Associate, The Transcending Trauma Project * Fellow, The Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania * Founding member of Collaborative Family Law Affiliates * Speaker for Physicians for Social Responsibility in the 1980s and early 990s

I am available for lectures, workshops, and trainings, facilitation, mediation, distance teaching via videoconferencing and related activities. I can commute between NYC, Philadelphia, and DC. I would like to apply my clinical knowledge and skills to violence prevention, facilitation, negotiation, and participation in think tanks, providing input on psychological dimensions of political phenomena, unintended consequences and creative uses of bloodless forms of force in violence prevention, nuclearism and terrorism.