Diane Kaufman

Ph.D.

Child Psychiatrist and Certified Expressive Arts Educational Facilitator with extensive training and experience in the therapeutic use of poetry and story.

www.holdoncampaign.org

Diane Kaufman, MD is a child psychiatrist, poet, artist, humanism in medicine awardee, and founder/director of the Hold On Campaign for Suicide Prevention and the Arts and Healing Resiliency Center.

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<p>Dr. Diane Kaufman is a child psychiatrist, humanism-in-medicine awardee, poet, artist, author, internationally award-winning lyricist, and the founder/director of the Hold On Campaign for Suicide Prevention and the Arts & Healing Resiliency Center. She has extensive training and experience in the therapeutic use of poetry and story, and received certification from Salve Regina University (Newport, Rhode Island) as an Expressive Arts Educational Facilitator. Diane is dedicated to transforming trauma and despair into life affirming creativity. Her story, "Bird That Wants To Fly" inspired an opera.</p>