Ecker Fellows Program Faculty

Diane O’Donoghue, PhD 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).

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Ecker Faculty Mentors

Christopher Lovett, PhD is a faculty member at BPSI and maintains a private practice in Newton Centre. A former member of the editorial boards of The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, he is very interested in the intersection of early, nonverbal and sensory modes of experience and more sophisticated, verbal symbolic levels of experience and their mutual influence on the sense of both aliveness and meaning.

Cecil Webster, MD is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist, a Child and Adult Candidate at BPSI. He is lecturer in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital and serves on the Board of Trustees at BPSI. His areas of interest include intersectional identities such as race, sexuality, and gender, and applying psychoanalytic techniques to artistic media expressions in understanding complex aspects of humanity.

Anthony D. Bram, PhD, ABAP, FABP is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Lexington, MA; a part-time Lecturer in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School; and Vice-Chair/Associate Supervisor in the Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Training Program at BPSI. He is the author of Psychological Assessment of Emotional Dysregulation in Children and Adolescents: The Bipolar Spectrum and Beyond and Psychological Testing that Matters: Creating a Road Map for Effective Treatment and co-editor of Psychoanalytic Assessment Applications in Different Settings. For fun, he and his musician son run an independent record label, FABCOM! Records.

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.

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.

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.