Philip Lance is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice. He is a member of the Psychoanalytic Center of California where he serves as the co-Chair of the Continuing Education Program and member of the Curriculum Committee. He supervises pre-licensed clinicians and teaches psychoanalytic theory at the Reiss-Davis Graduate School. In the 1980’s, he earned a B.A. from Wheaton College in Illinois and an M.Div. from The General Theological Seminary in New York City. 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 was titled, Toward a Gay-Centered Liberation Psychology. He 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. His research interests include comparative psychoanalysis and critical psychology. He has been published in Studies in Gender and Sexuality and The Gay and Lesbian Review.