Donna Fromberg, PsyD, President

Cary Friedman, MD, President-elect is a BPSI Training and Supervising Analyst and psychiatrist in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has held several administrative posts at BPSI, including Secretary, Chair of the Psychoanalytic Training Program’s Joint Curriculum/Faculty Executive Committee, and Chair of the Education Policy Committee. He is also a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association Committee on Gender and Sexuality and has written and taught extensively on gender, sexuality, reproductive technology, nontraditional families, and psychoanalysis.

Janet Witte, MD, MPH, Secretary

Christopher Leich, JD, Treasurer

COMMUNITY TRUSTEES

Carol Bonner, MSW, MBA, EdD

Mr. Nelson Liu

Robert Stern, MD is currently the Medical Director of Inpatient Psychiatric Services at BMC Brighton. He was trained at The Cambridge Hospital as a Community Psychiatrist, supporting his dedication to serve those most in need and least able to pay. Dr. Stern has proudly served as a Community Trustee to lend my support to the organization that honors and elevates subjectivity, and whenever possible point trainees to BPSI for enhanced training.

Usha Tummala-Narra, PhD is a Professor of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology at Boston College. Her research and scholarship focus on immigration, trauma, and culturally informed psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She is also a clinical psychologist in Independent Practice. Dr. Tummala-Narra is a Consulting Editor for Psychoanalytic Dialogues and for the American Psychologist, and a member of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis.

Susan Walton, PhD is an American social historian who has worked in academia and public history. She has taught the American History survey course and courses in Women’s History and Boston History, and she co-wrote reports on the Pierce House in Dorchester and a Woodstock, VT National Park, foundation documents for their public tours. Now retired, she spends wonderful time with her grandchildren and continues her long-time church volunteer work, involved in governance, development, and the “Feed the Hungry” ministry.

Mr. Owen Young

MEMBER TRUSTEES

Susan Austrian, MD

James Barron, PhD, ABPP is a faculty member and past Chair of the BPSI Board of Trustees. Jim is Head of the Department of Psychoanalytic Education (DPE) of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA), Co-Chair of the DPE Council for Leadership and Organizational Studies (CLOS), and past chair of the DPE Psychoanalyst in the Community. He maintains a private practice in Brookline, MA with a focus on psychoanalysis and organizational consulting.

Paola Contreras, PsyD is a psychoanalyst and psychologist who focuses on the connections of psychoanalysis with the social and community. Her career began with work in communities affected by the Guatemalan Civil War, including training as a psychologist and participation in a Lacanian study group in Guatemala. She continued her training in the U.S., where she is now an Associate Professor at William James College and directs the Human Trafficking Community Research Hub. At BPSI, she co-directs the Community Psychoanalysis Concentration, co-chairs the Community Division, and co-instructs a class on Jean Laplanche’s work. She also has a private practice in Cambridge, MA.

Amy Fleischer, LICSW is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in Norwich, Vermont. She teaches on the psychotherapy faculty of BPSI and chairs the BPSI Psychotherapy Conference. Amy has also been an Associate Professor at Smith College School For Social Work, and is currently a Clinical Instructor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. Amy is the Chair of the Committee on Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Programs for the American Psychoanalytic Association, and serves on the BPSI Board of Trustees.

Jack Foehl, PhD is past president of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, where he is supervising/training analyst. He is a lecturer at Harvard Medical School and clinical associate professor at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is emeritus joint editor in chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and is past board member of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He lives and works in private practice in Cambridge, MA.

Komal Gupta, PsyD is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Newton, Massachusetts. She is an incoming first-year Candidate at BPSI, and she serves on the Board of Trustees. She is also a member of the JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) committee. Her clinical and scholarly interests focus on racial and cultural identity development, intergenerational trauma and resilience, and cultural issues specific to Indian communities.

Theodore Murray, MD is a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Cambridge, MA. He is a post-academic candidate in psychoanalysis at BPSI and serves on the Admissions and Nominating Committees and recently co-led a Task Force on Tele-analysis for the Education Committee. He teaches both in the Fellowship/ ATP at BPSI as well as Cambridge Health Alliance/ Harvard Medical School where he also supervises and mentors trainees.

Caryn Mushlin, LICSW

Alison Newman, LICSW

Jan Seriff, PsyD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at BPSI, a faculty member of the psychoanalytic and psychotherapy training programs, a member of the Board of Trustees, (former Co-chair of Development and former Chair of the Campaign for Psychoanalysis), and current Chair of the Education Committee for BPSI’s Psychoanalytic Training Program. Dr. Seriff is also chair of the American Board of Psychoanalysis’ Certification Committee. In all of her local and national professional activities, Dr. Seriff’s passion is psychoanalytic education and the training of the next generation of psychoanalysts and psychoanalytically-informed psychotherapists. She maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and clinical supervision in Newton, MA.

Cecil Webster, MD is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with appointments at Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital. He is founder of the Webster Clinic, a group practice grounded in psychoanalytic principles and dedicated to the care of ethnically, sexually, and gender diverse individuals and families. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Editorial Board of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child.

TRUSTEE CONSULTANTS

Holly Blatman, MD, Trustee Consultant, is a psychoanalyst and a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist. She teaches and is a member of the psychoanalytic and psychotherapy faculties at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, where she is Chair of the New Members Committee and serves on the Board of Trustees. She has a private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Kimberlyn Leary, PhD, Trustee Consultant has served as the Executive Vice President at the Urban Institute, an Advisor and Senior Fellow at New America, and has joined the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School as an Emma Bloomberg Lecturer in Policy and Management. She has also been a consulting advisor to the Gates Foundation. Dr. Leary also holds academic appointments as an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and has held two roles in federal service: in the Obama White House as an advisor to the Council on Women and Girls, as a senior advisor to the Biden White House Domestic Policy Council, and as a fellow in the Office of Management and Budget.

Mr. Robert Silver, Trustee Consultant

TRUSTEE EMERITUS
Ellen Blumenthal, MD, Trustee Emeritus
Philip Burling, JD, Trustee Emeritus
James Dalsimer, MD, Trustee Emeritus
Jonathan Kolb, MD, Trustee Emeritus
Barry Korobkin, AIA, Trustee Emeritus
Mr. James Nemetz, Trustee Emeritus
Mr. Frederick Schultz, Trustee Emeritus

BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADMINISTRATORS
Carole A. Nathan, Managing Director
Drew Brydon-Cardoso, Associate Director, Business Operations
Maxwell Dietrich, Evening Administrative & Event Assistant

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