PHILIP LANCE, PHD

Faculty

Education

PhD in Clinical Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute

Profile 

Philip Lance is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice. He began his career as an Episcopal priest engaged in community organizing. In this capacity, he founded the Camino Nuevo Charter Academy schools in central Los Angeles, providing a bilingual K-12 education within a community development context. In 2010, Philip went back to school to earn a PhD in Clinical Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. His dissertation is titled, Toward a Gay-Centered Liberation Psychology.

Dr. Lance opened a private practice in 2015 and provides psychotherapy to individuals and couples. Many of his clients are mental health clinicians and academics in the humanities. Dr. Lance’s research interests include comparative psychoanalysis and critical psychology. Dr. Lance has been published in the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality. He supervises pre-licensed clinicians and serves as the co-chair of the Continuing Education Committee at the Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC). He is a Fellow of the International Psychoanalytic Association. At Reiss-Davis, he teaches courses on psychodynamic theory.