Dr. Martin Miller

 Dr. Martin "Marty" Miller  M.D. A psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who spent most of his life and career in the Boston area, died peacefully, on April 24, 2025, in Wayland, Massachusetts, at the age of 85. He kept singing along to the music as long as he could. Born October 13, 1939, the third son of Jack and Ceil Miller, Marty grew up in Brooklyn, NY. After Ceil's passing, Jack remarried Lilly Buchner and Marty gained a stepmother and three older stepsiblings. Street-smart and book-smart, Marty always kept his change in separate pockets to outwit the neighborhood toughs and by age 16, he enrolled at Cornell University, where he majored in Mathematics and starred in many school musicals. Marty earned his M.D. from SUNY Downstate in 1964 and completed his training in adult psychiatry four years later. Next, Marty served as Division Psychiatrist for the 82nd Airborne in Fayetteville, NC, where he coined "post-Vietnam syndrome," a precursor to what is now known as PTSD. There, he began his private psychotherapy practice and discovered his love for tennis: two passions that fueled his zest for life for the next five decades. In 1970, Marty moved to Newton, MA, where he trained in psychoanalysis at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (BPSI). Over the years, he held leadership roles at Brandeis, McLean and Massachusetts General Hospital, where he coordinated child psychiatry training until 2000. He also taught at Harvard Medical School, BPSI and the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England, mentoring countless Boston-area psychiatric residents and analysts along the way. In his private clinical practice, Marty worked with children, adolescents and adults, until retiring at age 84. He always took his profession seriously, but not himself. Outside of work, he gained notoriety for his expert lobs on the tennis court. He also enjoyed crossword puzzles, theater, single-malt scotch, music, dancing, card games, bonding with wait staff over good meals and summer trips to Martha's Vineyard with his family.

Marty was predeceased by his parents, most of his siblings; and his first wife, Linda (Schwartz). He is deeply missed by his beloved wife of 35 years, Leslie Cokin; his children and their spouses, Elizabeth Hart (Russell Hart), Andrew Miller, Emily Cooper (Michael Cooper) and Zachary Miller (Lauren Gluck, fiancée); and his five grandchildren, Natalie, Grace, Dylan, Anna and Jack, who knew him fondly as GPM.

A Funeral Service will be held on Monday, April 28, at 5:30 p.m., at the Cambridge Tennis Club, his home courts in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a reception to follow at 25 Willard Street. Donations in Marty's memory may be made to the American Repertory Theater or Spaulding Rehabilitation.

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