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About Philip Lance

Philip Lance, PhD, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Los Angeles. He began his career as an Episcopal priest involved with community organizing in central Los Angeles. These involvements led to his founding a non-profit community development corporation that he directed for two decades. His interest in psychoanalysis integrates his spiritual and social justice vocations.

Philip Lance, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Los Angeles. He can be reached at PhilipJLance@gmail.com

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Psychoanalysis January 20, 2021

Memory's Eyes

A New York Oedipus Novel

Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau

Hosted by Philip Lance
Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau's Memory’s Eyes is a contemporary New York Oedipus novel. It is written for readers who enjoy playing with concepts and storylines, here namely the classical Oedipus myth, Sophocles’ three …
Poetry January 12, 2021

Descent

Lauren Russell

Hosted by Philip Lance
In 2013, poet Lauren Russell acquired a copy of the diary of her great-great-grandfather, Robert Wallace Hubert, a Captain in the Confederate Army. After his return from the Civil War …
Psychoanalysis January 7, 2021

Core Competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis

A Guide to Practice, Study and Research

Roy E. Barsness

Hosted by Philip Lance
Core Competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis: A Guide to Practice, Study, and Research (Routledge, 2018) provides a concise and clearly presented handbook for graduate students, experienced clinicians, supervisors, and professors, presenting …
Psychoanalysis December 10, 2020

Psychotherapeutic Engagements With LGBTQ+ Patients and Their Families

Jack Drescher

Hosted by Philip Lance
In this episode, Philip Lance interviews Jack Drescher, a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who is an expert in psychotherapy with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients. The interview focuses on a …
Psychoanalysis December 7, 2020

Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind

A psychoanalytic method and theory

Fred Busch

Hosted by Philip Lance
Bringing a fresh contemporary Freudian view to a number of current issues in psychoanalysis, this book is about a psychoanalytic method that has been evolved by Fred Busch over the …
Psychoanalysis May 13, 2020

Contemporary Bionian Theory and Technique in Psychoanalysis

Fulvio Mazzacane

Hosted by Philip Lance
Psychoanalytic theory has developed very rapidly in recent years across many schools of thought. One of the most popular builds on the work of Wilfred Bion. Fulvio Mazzacane's new book …
Psychoanalysis January 27, 2020

Psychic Bisexuality

A British-French Dialogue

Rosine Jozef Perelberg

Hosted by Philip Lance
Psychic Bisexuality: A British-French Dialogue (Routledge, 2018), edited by Rosine Jozef Perelberg, clarifies and develops the Freudian conception according to which sexual identity is not reduced to the anatomical difference …
Psychoanalysis July 23, 2019

Beyond Psychotherapy

On Becoming a (Radical) Psychoanalyst

Barnaby Barratt

Hosted by Philip Lance
In Beyond Psychotherapy: On Becoming a (Radical) Psychoanalyst (Routledge, 2019), Barnaby Barratt illuminates a new perspective on the radicality of genuinely psychoanalytic discourse as the unique science of healing. Starting …
Psychoanalysis June 4, 2019

An Apocryphal Dictionary of Psychoanalysis

Giuseppe Civitarese

Hosted by Philip Lance
Giuseppe Civitarese's An Apocryphal Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2019) is a book of transpositions, collecting together the author’s clinical vignettes, enigmatic objects, stray thoughts, projects, images, notes from readings, and …
Psychoanalysis May 14, 2019

Transformational Processes in Clinical Psychoanalysis

Dreaming, Emotions and the Present Moment

Lawrence J. Brown

Hosted by Philip Lance
In Transformational Processes in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Dreaming, Emotions and the Present Moment (Routledge, 2019), Lawrence J. Brown offers a contemporary perspective on how the mind transforms, and gives meaning to …
Intellectual History April 9, 2019

A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice

A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice

Donald L. Carveth

Hosted by Philip Lance
Since the classical Freudian and ego psychology paradigms lost their position of dominance in the late 1950’s, psychoanalysis became a multi-paradigm science with those working in the different frameworks increasingly …
Psychoanalysis November 14, 2018

The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst

Explorations in Psychoanalytic Companioning

Robert Grossmark

Hosted by Philip Lance
Can you be a relational analyst who is unobtrusive at the same time? In this book, Robert Grossmark makes a claim that you can and you should! He identifies a …
Psychoanalysis July 27, 2018

Minding Emotions

Cultivating Mentalization in Psychotherapy

Elliot Jurist

Hosted by Philip Lance
Elliot Jurist is one of the authors, along with Peter Fonagy, of a prominent book in psychological science called Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self, published in …
Psychoanalysis July 12, 2018

The Clinical Paradigms of Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott

Comparisons and Dialogues

Jan Abram and R. D. Hinshelwood

Hosted by Philip Lance
Can one integrate Klein and Winnicott? Or does one have to choose between them when practicing psychoanalysis? These are questions for Abram and Hinshelwood in this podcast interview of two …
Psychoanalysis June 28, 2018

Clinical Encounters in Sexuality

Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory

Noreen Giffney and Eve Watson

Hosted by Philip Lance
Psychoanalysis is a queer theory. That’s what Tim Dean said, according to Eve Watson in the afterword to Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory (Punctum Books, 2017) …
Psychoanalysis June 5, 2018

Laplanche

An Introduction

Jonathan House

Hosted by Philip Lance
This interview with Jonathan House is about a book titled Laplanche: An Introduction (The Unconscious in Translation, 2015). Dr. House is not the author of the book (more on that …
Psychoanalysis May 18, 2018

Conundrums and Predicaments in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Richard Tuch and Lynn S. Kuttnauer

Hosted by Philip Lance
“Clinical moments,” as defined in this book, are those therapeutic encounters that challenge the analyst’s capacity to make snap judgments about how to respond to a patient at particularly delicate …
Psychoanalysis April 24, 2018

The Unpast

The Actual Unconscious

Dominique Scarfone

Hosted by Philip Lance
Dominique Scarfone's The Unpast: The Actual Unconscious (The Unconscious in Translation, 2015) charts “a new itinerary through the vast landscape that is Freud.” For many North American readers, or others …
Psychoanalysis December 26, 2017

Psychoanalytic Method in Motion

Controversies and Evolution in Clinical Theory and Practice

Richard Tuch

Hosted by Philip Lance
Richard Tuch is an analyst in Los Angeles who specializes in writing and teaching about psychoanalytic technique. In this book, he succinctly reviews a number of major historic controversies regarding …
Psychoanalysis November 7, 2017

The Work of Psychoanalysis

Sexuality, Time and the Psychoanalytic Mind

Dana Birksted-Breen

Hosted by Philip Lance
When the Editor-in-Chief of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis writes a book about the work of psychoanalysis, interested parties ought to take notice. But alas, the world of psychoanalysis speaks …
Psychoanalysis September 26, 2017

The New Analyst's Guide to the Galaxy

Questions about Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Antonino Ferro and Luca Nicoli

Hosted by Philip Lance
The "tongue in cheek" title of The New Analyst's Guide to the Galaxy: Questions about Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Karnac Books, 2017), which references the hugely popular Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy …
Psychoanalysis August 29, 2017

Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis

A Model for Theory and Practice

Lewis Kirshner

Hosted by Philip Lance
It has been said that we cannot not be in intersubjectivity. During the past decades, this fact has challenged the traditional psychoanalytic project. Various psychoanalytic schools have addressed the challenge …
Psychoanalysis August 16, 2017

The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi

From Ghost to Ancestor

Adrienne Harris and Steven Kuchuck, eds.

Hosted by Philip Lance
Adrienne Harris and Steven Kuchuck's The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi: From Ghost to Ancestor (Routledge, 2015) contributes to the resurgence of interest in Sandor Ferenczi since the early 1990s when …
Psychoanalysis July 16, 2017

Bion and Being

Passion and the Creative Mind

Annie Reiner

Hosted by Philip Lance
Reading Annie Reiner's Bion and Being: Passion and the Creative Mind (Karnac, 2012) was a spiritual experience for me. Dr. Reiner illuminates the often-obscure ideas of Wilfred Bion with seemingly …