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In 1952, Dr. Anna Ornstein received her medical degree in Heidelberg, Germany. After moving to the United States, she trained in adult and child psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati, where she remains Professor Emerita of Child Psychology. By 1971, she graduated from the Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis. Currently, she serves as a Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, and as a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute. Dr. Ornstein is also a Lecturer on Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Many awards have been bestowed upon Dr. Ornstein. Among them are the Distinguished Psychiatrist Lecturer Award by the American Psychiatric Association (1989), the Rosenberry Award for dedication to the care of children (1991), and the Cincinnati Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship (1996). In 2000, the American Psychiatric Association gave her the Special Presidential Commendation.
Dr. Ornstein has over 100 publications including articles on the interpretive process in psychoanalysis, on psychoanalytic psychotherapy (many of these jointly written with Dr. Paul Ornstein), on child psychopathology and the treatment of children and their families, and on the process of recovery following the survival of extreme conditions. In addition, she is the author of a memoir, My Mother’s Eyes.
Both individually and with her husband Paul (who died in 2016), Dr. Ornstein has led over 400 seminars and workshops in most major psychoanalytic training centers in the United States and abroad. She continues to write, teach, and actively contribute to our community.