About Philip Lance

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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NBN Episodes hosted by Philip:

Dominique Scarfone, "The Reality of the Message: Psychoanalysis in the Wake of Jean Laplanche" (Unconscious in Translation, 2023)

February 29, 2024

The Reality of the Message

Dominique Scarfone and Avgi Saketopoulou
Hosted by Philip Lance

The Reality of the Message: Psychoanalysis in the Wake of Jean Laplanche (Unconscious in Translation, 2023) compiles papers written by Dominique Scarf…

Annie Reiner, "W. R. Bion’s Theories of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction" (Routledge, 2022)

December 24, 2022

W. R. Bion’s Theories of Mind

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 the…

Mark Solms, "The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness" (Norton, 2021)

August 12, 2022

The Hidden Spring

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 wh…

Helen Morgan, "The Work of Whiteness: A Psychoanalytic Perspective" (Routledge, 2021)

July 6, 2022

The Work of Whiteness

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 soci…

Noreen Giffney, "The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis: Cultural Experiences and the Clinic" (Routledge, 2021)

December 27, 2021

The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis

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, t…

Darian Leader, "Jouissance: Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction" (Polity Press, 2021)

November 12, 2021

Jouissance

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…

Heinz Weiss, "Trauma, Guilt and Reparation: The Path from Impasse to Development" (Routledge, 2019)

October 13, 2021

Trauma, Guilt and Reparation

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 experi…

Mitchell Wilson, "The Analyst’s Desire: The Ethical Foundation of Clinical Practice" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

May 28, 2021

The Analyst’s Desire

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 d…

Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, "Memory's Eyes: A New York Oedipus Novel" (Ipbooks, 2020)

January 20, 2021

Memory's Eyes

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 sto…

Lauren Russell, "Descent" (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2017)

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. Af…

Roy E. Barsness, "Core Competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis: Core Competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis: A Guide to Practice, Study, and Research" (Routledge, 2018)

January 7, 2021

Core Competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis

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 ha…

Jack Drescher, "Psychotherapeutic Engagements With LGBTQ+ Patients and Their Families" (American Psychiatric Association, 2020)

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…

Fred Busch, "Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind: A Psychoanalytic Method and Theory" (Routledge, 2013)

December 7, 2020

Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind

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 …

Fulvio Mazzacane, "Contemporary Bionian Theory and Technique in Psychoanalysis" (Routledge, 2018)

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…

Rosine Jozef Perelberg, "Psychic Bisexuality: A British-French Dialogue" (Routledge, 2018)

January 27, 2020

Psychic Bisexuality

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 acc…

Barnaby Barratt, "Beyond Psychotherapy: On Becoming a (Radical) Psychoanalyst" (Routledge, 2019)

July 23, 2019

Beyond Psychotherapy

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 g…

Giuseppe Civitarese, "An Apocryphal Dictionary of Psychoanalysis" (Routledge, 2019)

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 clini…

Lawrence J. Brown, "Transformational Processes in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Dreaming, Emotions and the Present Moment" (Routledge, 2019)

May 14, 2019

Transformational Processes in Clinical Psychoanalysis

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 cont…

Donald L. Carveth, "Psychoanalytic Thinking: A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice" (Routledge, 2018)

April 9, 2019

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 …

Robert Grossmark, "The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Companioning" (Routledge, 2018)

November 14, 2018

The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst

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 iden…

Elliot Jurist, "Minding Emotions: Cultivating Mentalization in Psychotherapy" (The Guilford Press, 2018)

July 27, 2018

Minding Emotions

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, an…

Jan Abram and R. D. Hinshelwood, "The Clinical Paradigms of Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott: Comparisons and Dialogues" (Routledge, 2018)

July 12, 2018

The Clinical Paradigms of Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott

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 Hinsh…

Noreen Giffney and Eve Watson, "Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory" (Punctum Books, 2017)

June 28, 2018

Clinical Encounters in Sexuality

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: Psychoanaly…

Jonathan House, "Laplanche: An Introduction" (The Unconscious in Translation, 2015)

June 5, 2018

Laplanche

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 auth…