Our Advisory Board

Carl Marci, M.D.

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Advisory Chair

Chair of the Advisory Board to the MGH Endowment for the Advancement of Psychotherapy, staff psychiatrist at MGH Revere Mental Health and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Marci is an innovative researcher and has published peer-review articles on the neurobiology and physiology of empathy during psychotherapy and is a pioneer in the fields of social and consumer neuroscience.

Robert Waldinger, M.D.

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Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (part-time) and Director of the MGH Center for Psychodynamic Therapy and Research. He directs the 75-year Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest study of adult life ever conducted, and he has published numerous research papers about the early life predictors of adult health and wellbeing. He also co-directs the Program in Psychodynamics in the MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency.

Laura Crain, M.D.

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Laura Crain, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty member at Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (part-time). She is a clinical associate in Psychiatry and Assistant Director of the MGH Center for Group Psychotherapy at Massachusetts General Hospital. She teaches and supervises for the MGH/McLean psychiatry training program and is on the faculty of the Program in Psychodynamics. She has a general psychiatry and psychoanalysis private practice in Boston, MA.

Kathy Ulman, Ph.D

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Kathleen Hubbs Ulman, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Psychology) Part-time at Harvard Medical School, Clinical Assistant in Psychiatry (Psychology) at Massachusetts General Hospital, Director, of the Center for Group Psychotherapy at MGH , Clinical Staff Member, Women’s Health Associates at MGH and Retiring President of the American Group Psychotherapy Association.

John Herman, M.D.

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Dr. Herman is Associate Chief of the Department of Psychiatry and the Distinguished Scholar for Medical Psychiatry at MGH. He is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. A lifelong medical educator, within the department he directed the Department’s national and international postgraduate education program and for a decade ran our Psychiatry Residency Training program. He continues to supervise medical students, residents and fellows. Dr. Herman serves as Medical Director of its Partners HealthCare’s Employee Assistance Program, serving 80,000 employees and their family members

Jean Principe, Ph.D

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Completed her psychoanalytic training at the Harvard/MGH Center for Psychoanalytic Studies under the direction of Anne Alonso, PhD. Now in private practice in New York City, Dr. Principe also supervises and teaches at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. Her research interests and publications focus on the therapeutic relationship in the first session as well as beginnings and termination in psychotherapy process.

Scott Wilson, M.D.

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Dr. Wilson is Psychiatrist at MGH and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He was formerly Medical Director of the Revere Counseling Center and the Associate Medical Director of the Freedom Trail Clinic in Boston. For three decades he has taught and supervised psychotherapy at MGH, currently in the Program in Psychodynamics. His published work includes studies of psychoimmunology, trauma, the nature of self-observing, and the meanings of medicating. He has a private practice of general adult psychiatry in Boston.

Brian Schulman, M.D.

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Dr. Schulman is a Staff Psychiatrist at MGH and Instructor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is on faculty in the MGH Program in Psychodynamics, and has various teaching roles supervising psychotherapy and psychopharmacology cases for trainees of assorted levels of experience. He moderates an interdisciplinary case conference series for the MGH Department of Psychiatry entitled “Cross Talk.” His clinical roles include seeing patients at the subspecialty MGH Bipolar Clinic and a private psychotherapy practice in Boston.