Donna Orange 1944 - 2024

The Sigmund Freud Museum mourns the death of Donna Orange  

 

 

On November 19, Donna Orange passed away at the age of eighty following a serious bicycle accident in her hometown of Claremont, California. Since her stay as a Fulbright-Freud Visiting Lecturer at the Sigmund Freud Museum in 2018, she remained closely associated with the museum and its team. We mourn the loss of a versatile, globally networked author, lecturer, psychoanalyst and friend: we will always remember her generous and kind nature, her empathy for people's worries and needs, as well as her clear and courageous views on current socio-political problems and developments in an exemplary manner.  

Donna Orange was educated in both philosophy and clinical psychology. She taught at New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis (Relational Track), at IPSS (Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York) and also at ISIPSé (Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychology of the Self and Relational Psychoanalysis) in Milan and Rome. She ran study groups in philosophy, in the history of psychoanalysis, and in contemporary relational psychoanalysis. Her publications include Emotional Understanding: Studies in Psychoanalytic Psychology (1995); Thinking for Clinicians: Philosophical Resources for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Humanistic Psychotherapies (2010), The Suffering Stranger: Hermeneutics for Everyday Clinical Practice (2011), Nourishing the Inner Life of Clinicians and Humanitarians (2016) and Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics (2017).