Rate My Professor Lorraine Mangione

Dr. Lorraine Mangione is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of Practica at Antioch University New England in the Psychology department, where she has taught, researched, and directed the practicum system for over 30 years. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in psychology from Duke University in 1976 and her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Kansas in 1984. Licensed in Massachusetts, she provides supervision and training around group therapy. Her academic interests include creativity and artistry; group therapy and group dynamics, especially women’s groups and groups across the lifespan; psychodynamic theory; Bruce Springsteen’s work and its larger meanings; the meaning of fandom; integrating creativity into psychotherapy; supervision and the supervisory relationship; adult development and creativity; loss and grief processes; religion and spirituality in clinical work; ethnicity and cultural diversity; and qualitative research epistemologies. She applies psychological principles to existential and relational aspects of life, emphasizing relationship and meaning-making.

Mangione’s publications include co-authored books Daughters, Dads, and the Path through Grief: Tales from Italian America (2014, with Donna DiCello, PsyD) and Mary Climbs In: The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen’s Women Fans (2023, with Donna Luff, PhD, Rutgers University Press). She contributed chapters to Benessere Psicologico: Contemporary Thought on Italian American Mental Health and articles such as “The 1996 Mount Everest Tragedy: Contemplations on Group Process and Group Dynamics” (International Journal of Group Psychotherapy), “Spirit In The Night to Mary’s Place: Loss, Death, and the Transformative Power of Relationships” (Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts), “Ethics and Endings in Group Psychotherapy: Saying Good-bye and Saying It Well” (International Journal of Group Psychotherapy), and “Passion, Containment, and Commitment—Essential Elements of Groups Across the Lifespan in Bruce Springsteen’s Work” (International Journal of Group Psychotherapy). Named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association Division 10 (Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts), she chaired the Massachusetts Psychological Association Training Committee for 10 years, co-chaired its annual conference three times, and organized conferences on clinical supervision and professional psychology training, fostering collaboration across New England training communities and the National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology.