Ecker Fellows Program Faculty
Director, Ecker Fellows Program
A historian of visual cultures, Diane directs the Program for Public Humanities at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts. She has been the Visiting Professor of Public Humanities at Brown, and for the 2023–2024 academic year will be a visiting fellow at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. An affiliate scholar and faculty member at BPSI, she is also Chair here of the Division for Interdisciplinary Psychoanalysis.
Her writings often focus on the role of objects and spaces within the construction of early psychoanalytic ideas, and she is the author of On Dangerous Ground: Freud’s Visual Cultures of the Unconscious (2019).
2023–24 Ecker Faculty Mentors
Stephanie Brody, PsyD is a Supervising and Training Analyst at BPSI and maintains a private practice in Lexington. She is the author of Entering Night Country: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Loss and Resilience (Routledge, 2016), and has an ongoing interest in how daily life is affected by our sensitivity to mortality. She does all her writing while listening to opera. Stephanie will be mentoring Giselle.
Deborah Greenman, MD is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Cambridge on the faculty of the McLean Hospital/MGH Psychiatry Residency Program. Her ongoing engagement with music – particularly vocal study and performance – enriches her life and her work. Deborah will be mentoring Earl.
Alfred Margulies, MD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at BPSI. Fascinated by artists’ gifts in seeing the world freshly, he has long pursued the nature of empathy and unconscious processes, how we might come nearer to another’s singular experiences and ways of being—and the creative uses of wonder. Al will be mentoring Aaron.