Lorraine Mangione

Antioch University
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Dr. Lorraine Mangione 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, and has been at Antioch University New England for over 30 years, relishing her involvement in teaching, research, and directing the practicum system. Dr. Mangione has special interests in 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 in people’s lives; integrating creativity into psychotherapy; supervision and the supervisory relationship; adult development and creativity; loss and grief processes; religion and spirituality and their relationship to clinical work; ethnicity and cultural diversity; and qualitative research and epistemologies. Her presentations and papers at regional and national conferences, often with students, have included such topics as mentoring in clinical psychology, dreaming and grief, spirituality and religion in group therapy, short-term group psychotherapy, leadership in groups, group training and supervision, relational aspects of supervision, political polarization, and larger level systemic issues in clinical training and supervision. She presents often on the following topics, sometimes within an Italian-American framework: father/daughter relationships, loss and grief, creativity, spirituality, and identity development in women, and has published two chapters in this area in the book Benessere Psicologico: Contemporary Thought on Italian American Mental Health and in her book, co-authored with Donna DiCello, Psy.D., Daughters, Dads, and the Path through Grief: Tales from Italian America. Creativity and its role in people’s lives and psyches has been an interest since her dissertation, which was a representative case study of a woman artist in which the artistic process was examined in detail. Creativity and some of the other topics mentioned above are included in her latest book, co-authored with Donna Luff, PhD; Mary Climbs In: The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen’s Women Fans, which investigates the deeper meanings of fandom through two large surveys.

Dr. Mangione was chair of the Massachusetts Psychological Association Training Committee for 10 years and remains actively involved in MPA and the Training Committee. She has co-chaired MPA’s annual conference three times recently. In the past, she chaired regional training conferences in 2007 and 2011 that brought together the New England academic and clinical training communities, along with national leadership, to address national level changes and initiatives in professional psychology education. In 2022 she chaired the Clinical Supervision Conference, again bringing together national and local leaders in the field of supervision, including a student panel from several of the Boston area and Antioch doctoral programs, for a rich day of updating and deepening our understanding of supervision. In addition, she is also involved in the training community in Connecticut and Western Massachusetts and is working towards greater collaboration with that group of schools and sites. They have recently hosted a new conference in Connecticut called “Trends in the Training Field: Adapting for Action” and hope to expand it next year.

Within the National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology, she has been actively involved in many areas of scholarship, including looking at social justice and marginalization through the lens of Bruce Springsteen’s work, mentoring, and its critical importance in education and training, writing about the foundational competency of Relationship, and research and writing about internships. She was very involved in creating the Psychology Internship Development Toolkit to encourage the growth of new internships. Dr. Mangione has provided supervision and training around group therapy and is licensed in Massachusetts.

Dr. Mangione is keenly interested in the application of psychological principles and findings to real-life situations, particularly the more existential and relational aspects of psychology and life. She has been concerned with meaning in life for her whole life.   She has addressed issues on the intersection of group dynamics, leadership, and mountaineering in The 1996 Mount Everest Tragedy: Contemplation on group process and group dynamics in International Journal of Group Psychotherapy; Bruce Springsteen’s work and psychological transformation in Spirit In The Night to Mary’s Place: Loss, death, and the transformative power of relationships in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts; the juncture of ethics and endings in group psychotherapy in Ethics and endings in group psychotherapy: Saying good-bye and saying it well in International Journal of Group Psychotherapy; and the important role of groups and group dynamics in people’s lives in Passion, containment, and commitment—Essential elements of groups across the lifespan in Bruce Springsteen’s work in International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. Her two books, Daughters, Dads, and the Path through Grief: Tales from Italian America and Mary Climbs In: The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen’s Women Fans, both speak to real life situations and their intersections with psychology. 

Lorraine Mangione

Professor and Director of Practica

Clinical Psychology

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  • PhD, University of Kansas
  • BA, Duke University

My present clinical, training, and research interests can all be grouped under two overarching concepts:  Relationship and Meaning in Life.

Psychologists’ views of religion and spirituality, and how those have had an impact on their clinical work and can have a greater impact on training and education, is the topic area of a special issue of Spirituality in Clinical Practice, an APA journal for which I am the guest editor, along with Dr. Thomas Plante, of a special issue that was published in Spring, 2024. Religion and spirituality are such an important area in people’s lives and we hope that psychologists can become more aware of this and work to integrate religion and spirituality in their clinical work through our special issue.

My interest in meaning-making, relationships, and how people get help and grow, and my great dedication to Bruce Springsteen’s work, have come together, and now a colleague and I have published a book and a few academic articles on the responses from two large surveys of women fans and the role that Springsteen plays in their psyche. Our book, with Donna Luff, PhD, from 2023, is Mary Climbs In: The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen’s Women Fans, and we have also published two articles from this database: “Who is Bruce Springsteen to his Female Fans?” and “Women Fans’ Journey through Darkness.” This work underscores for me the importance of creativity and fandom in everyday life, and using these important processes in clinical work also.

With the publication in 2015 with Donna DiCello, Psy.D. of Daughters, Dads, and the Path through Grief: Tales from Italian America, I have been engaging many people in clinical work, workshops, and presentations around issues of the deep significance of family relationships, the process of grief and loss, the meaning-making that goes into coming to terms with such loss, the role of culture and ethnicity in families and in death and mourning, and how people change and don’t change during such times.

Another colleague and I have developed a short-term group model for working with women in the second half of life called Beyond Midlife and Before Retirement: Seeking Meaning, Purpose, and Joy. In this group, we work with women as they reflect on their lives in a way that is inclusive of spirituality and aging. We have written about this model for The International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. My interest in older women has also resulted in a research project and articles about women working in the later part of their lives. From this area of interest, we have been doing workshops on therapists’ relationships to religion, spirituality, and existential issues.

Mentoring is a continuing interest, which stems from my work on the relationship competency for NCSPP. Our published research in this area, “Mentoring in Clinical Psychology Programs: Broadening and Deepening,” won the Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy Award for Most Valuable Paper on Professional Development, published in 2018. We were honored to receive that! Supervision is the bedrock of clinical training, and I have been involved in research on it in the past and hope to continue to be.

I have fantasies of branching into Conservation Psychology, but at this point, they remain just that, although I have had very stimulating conversations with our Environmental Studies faculty about possible collaboration, and Climate Change feels like the biggest issue facing humanity and our world these days.

Publications from the last few years include the following:

  • Mangione, L. & Plante, T. (2024). Spirituality in clinical practice: Integrating who we are with what we do.  Spirituality in Clinical Practice, 11(1). Guest editor for this Special Issue.
  • Mangione, L., & Plante, T. G. (2024). Spirituality in clinical practice: Integrating who we are with what we do. Spirituality in Clinical Practice, 11(1), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1037/scp0000363
  • Mangione, L. & Luff, D. (2023). Mary Climbs In: The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen’s Women Fans. Rutgers University Press. 
  • Margulies, M. & Mangione, L. (2023). A mini-version of a master class: How to work with difficult people using the unique properties of group. Group Circle, Summer, 2023, p. 4 & 7.
  • Mangione, L., Borden, K.A., & Fuss, E. (2022). Changing focus, shifting tasks, reworking relationships: Highly educated professional White women nearing retirement age in the workforce. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 53(5), 511-522.
  • Mangione, L., Borden, K.A., & Fuss, E. (2020). Late course adjustment: Shifting values in the careers of older women. In L. Hollis-Sawyer, & E. Cole Older women who work: Resilience, choice, and change. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • Mangione, L. & DiCello, D. (2020). Legacy from our fathers. In D. Gioseffi #MeToo Anch’io. Hoboken, NJ: Poets Wear Prada Press.
  • Mangione, L. & Luff, D.  (2019).  Women fans’ journeys through darkness.  Interdisciplinary Literary Studies,  21(1), 26-41.
  • Mangione, L. & Forti, R. (2018).  Beyond midlife and before retirement: A short-term women’s group.  International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 68(3), 314-336.
  • DiCello, D., Pidano, A., & Mangione, L.  (2018) “An Italian American view of grief: Connection, transformation and resilience”.  Mortality.  23(3), 261-278.
  • Mangione, L., Borden, K. A., Nadkarni, L., Evarts, K., & Hyde, K. (2018). Mentoring in clinical psychology programs: Broadening and deepening. Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 12(1), 4-13.
  • Mangione, L. & Luff, D. (2018). “Who is Springsteen to His Women Fans?”  In W. I. Wolff (Ed), Bruce Springsteen and popular music: Essays on rhetoric, social consciousness, and contemporary culture, Routledge Press.
  • “Bruce Springsteen’s Music:  His Women Fans Speak Out on the Deep Significance of Creative Works” Presentation at the Marconi Institute for Creativity, Sardinia, Italy, September, 2024.
  • “Spirituality in clinical practice: Integrating who we are with what we do.” Chair of APA Symposiumwith Thomas Plante on our special issue in Spirituality in Clinical Practice, at APA, Seattle, 2024.
  • “Can Bruce Springsteen’s Female Fans Enhance Our Understanding of Groups, Therapy, Belonging, Community, and Involvement?” Workshop at American Group Psychotherapy Association, National Harbor, MD, 2024.
  • “Expanding the Pipeline: Encouraging Systemic-Level Impact through Advocacy, Leadership, and Management Careers” Presentation at NCSPP, Denver, CO, 2024, with Kathi Borden, Elaine Campbell, Carmela DeCandia, Jessica Mayo, Susan Quigley, Cynthia Whitaker.
  • “From Bruce Springsteen to Mary Oliver: What Can Art and Creativity Add to Our Clinical Work?” with Leo Parini, B.A., Trends in Training Conference, University of Hartford, June, 2024.
  • “Daughters and Dads and Mother and Son: A Workshop for Italian American Women” Workshop at National Organization for Italian American Women, Providence, RI, April, 2024.
  • “Lyrics, Life, and Therapy: Narratives of Healing, Growth, and Relationship from Women Fans of Bruce Springsteen” Chair of symposium presented with Alex Elron, B.A. and Brittney Kleinfelter, BS at New England Psychological Association Annual Conference, Worcester State University, October, 2023.
  • “The Healing Bridge: Tracing Links Between Group Therapy, Relational Cultural Therapy, Existentialism, and Bruce Springsteen’s Music” Paper presented at New England Psychological Association Annual Conference, Worcester State University, October, 2023.
  • “Is Bruce Springsteen’s Work Psychotherapy? Women Fans’ Views on Meaning, Relationship, Loss,  Healing”  Poster presented with Brittney Kleinfelter, BS at American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC, August, 2023.
  • “Mentorship in Clinical Psychology:  Moving Beyond Traditional Mentorship Roles” presented in a symposium on mentoring with Kathi Borden, PhD, at American Educational Research Association in Chicago, April, 2023.
  • “Integrating One’s Own Spiritual/Religious Journey with Training, Supervision, and Leading Group Therapy” Workshop presented at American Group Psychotherapy Connect, March, 2023.
  • “What Does it Mean to Be an Italian American Woman?” panel presentation at NOIAW “LET’S TALK:About being Italian-American Women!” at IAM Books, Boston, MA, March, 2023.
  • “Relationship Challenges in A Time of Loss: Addressing How World Tensions Impact Our Programs” Workshop presented with Kathi Borden, PhD at NCSPP, Santa Fe, January, 2023.
  • Massachusetts Psychological Association Special Recognition Award for Exceptional Dedication to Teaching and Training in Psychology, Annual Meeting, November 2015.
  • Fellow Status in APA’s Division 49, Group Theory and Therapy, 2020.
  • 2018 Award for Most Valuable Paper on Professional Development from The Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy for the following paper: Mangione, L., Borden, K. A., Nadkarni, L., Evarts, K., & Hyde, K. (2018). Mentoring in clinical psychology programs: Broadening and deepening. Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 12(1), 4-13.