The New England Foundation for Psychoanalysis

Founded in 1995 as a 501(c)3 organization in the state of Massachusetts, the New England Foundation for Psychoanalysis's mission is to use psychoanalytic knowledge to benefit the broader community through interdisciplinary programs that combine endeavors in the arts, humanities, and the sciences with evolving psychoanalytic principles. In 2021, we received a bequest from the estate of Elizabeth Bullock. The bequest was used to create the Ecker Fund, which stipulates that the funds be used for interdisciplinary psychoanalytic projects, programs, and research. We give grants from the Ecker Fund to non-profit organizations for these interdisciplinary psychoanalytic projects, programs and research. Our initial major grant was to establsh the Ecker Fellows Program.

The Ecker Fellows Program

In the Spring of 2022, the New England Foundation for Psychoanalysis awarded the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute a grant to establish a program in Interdisciplinary Psychoanalysis, to bring creative artists to BPSI to engage with psychoanalysis.

Called the “Ecker Fellows Program“, this yearly initiative will involve a small cohort of distinguished early-to-mid career professionals in the performing arts, who will be offered an opportunity for sustained study of psychoanalytic principles in order to deepen and enrich their creative endeavors. This will occur within a program of study tailored to each artist’s interests. 

The 2023–24 Ecker Fellows

AARON HELGESON

EARL LEE

GISELLE TY

Meet the Fellows

Recent Grant Recipients