Instructors and Advisors

Donna Orange is an assistant clinical professor (adjunct) and consultant/supervisor for New York University’s post-doctoral program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Educated in philosophy, clinical psychology, and psychoanalysis, she is the author of numerous scholarly books, including Thinking for Clinicians: Philosophical Resources for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Humanistic Psychotherapies (2010), The Suffering Stranger: Hermeneutics for Everyday Clinical Practice (2011), Nourishing the Inner Life of Clinicians and Humanitarians: The Ethical Turn in Psychoanalysis, and Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics (2016), and most recently, Psychoanalysis, History, and Radical Ethics: Learning to Hear (2020). Dr. Orange was also a 2021 visiting professor of phenomenology at Duquesne University.

Eric Severson is a philosopher specializing in the work of Emmanuel Levinas. He is the author of Before Ethics (Kendall Hunt, 2021), Levinas's Philosophy of Time (Duquesne University Press, 2013), and Scandalous Obligation (Beacon Hill Press, 2011), and editor of eight other books. Severson teaches philosophy at Seattle University.