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About Philip Lance

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

NBN Episodes hosted by Philip:

Psychoanalysis December 24, 2022

W. R. Bion’s Theories of Mind

A Contemporary Introduction

Annie Reiner

Hosted by Philip Lance
Annie Reiner’s introduction to Wilfred Bion’s theories of mind presents Bion’s intricate ideas in an accessible, original way without compromising their complexity. Reiner uses comparisons to painting, literature and philosophy …
Psychoanalysis August 12, 2022

The Hidden Spring

A Journey to the Source of Consciousness

Mark Solms

Hosted by Philip Lance
If you have ever been skeptical about whether neuroscience has anything to teach psychoanalysis, or vice-versa, you will be stimulated by this book which engages the two disciplines in a …
Psychoanalysis July 6, 2022

The Work of Whiteness

A Psychoanalytic Perspective

Helen Morgan

Hosted by Philip Lance
'Whiteness' is a politically constructed category which needs to be understood and dismantled because the system of racism so embedded within our society harms us all. It has profound implications …
Psychoanalysis December 27, 2021

The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis

Cultural Experiences and the Clinic

Noreen Giffney

Hosted by Philip Lance
The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis: Cultural Experiences and the Clinic (Routledge, 2021) introduces "the culture-breast," a new clinical concept, to explore the central importance played by cultural objects in the psychical …
Psychoanalysis November 12, 2021

Jouissance

Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction

Darian Leader

Hosted by Philip Lance
Although the term 'jouissance' is common currency in psychoanalysis today, how much does it really tell us? While often taken to designate a fusion of sexuality, suffering and satisfaction, the …
Psychoanalysis October 13, 2021

Trauma, Guilt and Reparation

The Path from Impasse to Development

Heinz Weiss

Hosted by Philip Lance
Trauma, Guilt and Reparation: The Path from Impasse to Development (Routledge, 2019) identifies the emotional barriers faced by people who have experienced severe trauma, as well as the emergence of …
Psychoanalysis May 28, 2021

The Analyst’s Desire

The Ethical Foundation of Clinical Practice

Mitchell Wilson

Hosted by Philip Lance
In The Analyst’s Desire: The Ethical Foundation of Clinical Practice (Bloomsbury, 2020), Mitchell Wilson explores the fundamental role that lack and desire play in psychoanalytic interpretation by using a comparative method …
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 …
Psychoanalysis 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 …