Reflections on Liminality and Death

Founding board member and formerly the Executive Director of the Tricycle Foundation, publisher of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, America’s leading Buddhist magazine. Brown trained as a volunteer Buddhist chaplain with the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care and served at Beth Israel Medical Center in that capacity. She was a graduate of Division 1, for which she developed and taught the elective, Death for Clinicians: How to Treat a Patient who is Dying. As President of the Psychoanalytic Society of William Alanson White Institute, in 2021–2022, she organized the popular colloquia series, “The Uncanny, Revisited, Transpersonal Communication in the Interpersonal Field,” which was reprised in 2023 in its entirety by the Confer Center in London and subsequently published in this journal, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, with Brown as Guest Editor. Prior to her death, Brown was in private practice in Greenwich Village.