Adele Tutter

Adele Tutter, M.D., Ph.D. was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University, where she is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Psychoanalytic Studies Program in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. A practicing psychoanalyst, author, and art critic, her interdisciplinary scholarship addresses the relationships between loss and creativity, and between art and the artist. She has written on diverse subjects including Raymond Carver, Leos Janacek, Philip Johnson, Ovid, Nicholas Poussin, Josef Sudek, and Francesca Woodman, writing that has earned the Karl Menninger, Heinz Hartmann, Robert Liebert, and Gertrude and Ernst Ticho prizes. She is the author of "Dream House: An Intimate Portrait of the Philip Johnson Glass House" (University of Virginia Press, 2016); coeditor, with Léon Wurmser, of "Grief and its Transcendence: Memory, Identity, and Creativity" (Routledge, 2015); and editor of "The Muse: Psychoanalytic Explorations of Creative Inspiration" (Routledge, 2016). She currently working on a new monograph, "Mourning and Metamorphosis: Ovid, Poussin, and the Aesthetics of Loss."