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Orna Ophir is a New York State-licensed psychoanalyst and historian affiliated with New York University. She holds a part-time faculty role at NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study and serves as an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Comparative Literature at the College of Arts & Science. Concurrently, she is an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College, where she leads the DeWitt Wallace Institute for Psychiatry: History, Policy and the Arts as its Associate Director since 2021.
Her academic credentials include a B.A. in Psychology (Bar Ilan University, 1994), M.A. in Clinical Psychology (Bar Ilan University, 1997), and Ph.D. in History & Philosophy of Science (Tel Aviv University, 2009). She trained as a clinical psychologist and practiced at Shalvata Mental Health Center (1992–2008). Her professional journey includes journalism roles at Yedioth Achronot and TimeOut Tel-Aviv, teaching at Johns Hopkins University and Long Island University, and membership in the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA).
Ophir’s research focuses on medical history, psychoanalytic theory, and mental health narratives. She explores the intersections of psychiatry, cultural studies, and historical policy. Her notable works include Psychosis, Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry in Postwar America (2013) and Schizophrenia: An Unfinished History (2022). She is co-editing the forthcoming Routledge International Handbook for the History of Psychoanalytic Ideas (2027) and researching Prevention in Mind: A History of Mental Health Care (forthcoming 2027).
- Awards: Mara Beller Distinction (2010), Tyson Award Runner-Up (2013), IPSO Best Paper (2013), Frieda Fromm-Reichmann Lecture (2011)
- Contributions: Co-founder of IPA History Committee, columnist for Yediot Achronot America (2010–2012), art educator at Midrasha Academy
