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New podcast interview by PCC Candidate Philip Lance
PCC candidate, Philip Lance, continues his series for the New Books in Psychoanalysis podcast with this new interview from November 14, 2018. The new book is The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Companioning (Routledge, 2018) by Robert Grossmark. As Lance writes, Grossmark draws from the Object Relations tradition, especially Balint, [...]
Don’t miss out! LA COWAP conference November 9-10, 2018
PCC is proud to announce its role as a participating sponsor in the 2018 COWAP LA Conference to be held November 9-10, 2018, at the Luxe Hotel Sunset. COWAP, the Committee on Women & Psychoanalysis, was established by the IPA in 1998 to provide a framework for the [...]
PCC’s Albert Mason passes away on May 16, 2018
It is with great sadness that I inform you that Dr. Albert Mason died unexpectedly in hospital after a brief illness on Wednesday, May 16, 2018. Read Dr. Mason's obituary from the LA Times Dr. Mason has been one of the pillars of our world-wide psychoanalytic community. He was [...]
Book Review: Margot Waddell’s “Inside Lives”
PCC's Joe Aguayo has written a comprehensive review of Dr. Margot Waddell's most well-known book, "Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of the Personality". This review provides an excellent backdrop to understanding the work of this Tavistock-trained analyst who will be the keynote speaker for this year's Melanie Klein [...]
Desy Safan-Gerard launches her new book!
A new book entitled, “Chaos and Control – A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Unfolding Creative Minds” has just been published by Routledge of London. Written by psychoanalyst and artist Desy Safán-Gerard, it focuses on the issues confronting artists engaged in the creative process, as well as in the unique needs of [...]
New Podcast! Philip Lance interviews Dominique Scarfone
PCC candidate, Philip Lance, is at it again with an engaging interview on the New Books in Psychoanalysis podcast with Dominique Scarfone of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Institute and Society. Scarfone's relatively new book is The Unpast: The Actual Unconscious (2015). In the podcast introduction, Lance writes, "For many North [...]
