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Born in jamestown, New York, Dr. Crissey received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Smith College. In 1938 she obtained her medical degree from Vienna. She took her post-graduate training at Bellevue and the Payne Whitney Clinic of Cornell Medical School. She was licensed to practice in New York, New Jersey and Maine. A graduate of and instructor in the American Institute for Psychoanalysis, she was a practicing psychoanalyst and a member of many medical societies, including the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. She served on the Editorial Board of The American Journal of Psychoanalysis and was the author of several articles, particularly on group psychoanalysis.
For years she gave freely and fully of her time and energy as advisor to the Auxiliary Council to the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. After a prolonged illness, she died on May 5, 1966.