{"id":31121,"date":"2025-07-04T18:46:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T18:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31121"},"modified":"2025-07-04T19:26:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T19:26:34","slug":"anna-ornstein-psychoanalyst-who-survived-the-holocaust-dies-at-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31121","title":{"rendered":"Anna Ornstein, Psychoanalyst Who Survived the Holocaust, Dies at 98"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Despite the unspeakable horror of her youth, she embraced a school of psychotherapy that stresses empathy and the belief that everyone can change for the better.<\/p>\n

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That Anna Ornstein, a Holocaust survivor, focused on trauma in a long career as a psychoanalyst may not come as a surprise.<\/p>\n

That Dr. Ornstein, who was deported to Auschwitz when she was 17, sought to heal children and adolescents may also not be surprising.<\/p>\n

But a startling aspect of Dr. Ornstein\u2019s life and chosen profession was that, despite having experienced unspeakable horror in her youth, she embraced a school of psychotherapy that stresses empathy, seeing the world through others\u2019 eyes, and a belief that all people, even those who seem the most vile, contain a spark of humanity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr. Ornstein, who was born in Hungary and in the 1950s emigrated to the United States, where she practiced and taught child psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati and Harvard and became a leading exponent of a school known as self-psychology, died on Wednesday at her home in Brookline, Mass. She was 98.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr. Ornstein in 2018, speaking to high school students in Massachusetts.<\/span>Matthew J. Lee\/The Boston Globe, via Getty Images<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Her daughter Sharone Ornstein, who is also a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst, confirmed the death.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe had a way of bringing her personal lived experience seamlessly into her work,\u201d the younger Dr. Ornstein said in an interview. \u201cShe had a determination to live and create a life, and not be defined by her trauma.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Despite the unspeakable horror of her youth, she embraced a school of psychotherapy that stresses empathy and the belief that everyone can change for the better.That Anna Ornstein, a Holocaust survivor, focused on trauma in a long career as a psychoanalyst may not come as a surprise.That Dr. Ornstein, who was deported to Auschwitz when she was 17, sought to heal children and adolescents may also not be surprising.But a startling aspect of Dr. Ornstein\u2019s life and chosen profession was that, despite having experienced unspeakable horror in her youth, she embraced a school of psychotherapy that stresses empathy, seeing the world through others\u2019 eyes, and a belief that all people, even those who seem the most vile, contain a spark of humanity.Dr. Ornstein, who was born in Hungary and in the 1950s emigrated to the United States, where she practiced and taught child psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati and Harvard and became a leading exponent of a school known as self-psychology, died on Wednesday at her home in Brookline, Mass. She was 98.Dr. Ornstein in 2018, speaking to high school students in Massachusetts.Matthew J. Lee\/The Boston Globe, via Getty ImagesHer daughter Sharone Ornstein, who is also a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst, confirmed the death.\u201cShe had a way of bringing her personal lived experience seamlessly into her work,\u201d the younger Dr. Ornstein said in an interview. \u201cShe had a determination to live and create a life, and not be defined by her trauma.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31123,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31124,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31121\/revisions\/31124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}