Amanda Lenox
Bio
Amanda Lenox, a graduate of The Institute for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies of Philadelphia (IMPP; formerly PSP), attended additional training at The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center (PPSC) in NYC. She is currently a training analyst at IMPP and the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies (CMPS), NYC.
Amanda previously worked as a psychotherapist and intake clinician at PSP’s Consultation Center (PHL) and PPSC’s clinic (NYC), and as a therapist and supervisor at Blanton-Peale Psychoanalytic Counseling Center (NYC). Now in full-time private practice, she is licensed in NY, NJ, FL, PA, and TX.
A former professional dancer and educator, Amanda supports mental health in the dance community, having consulted for Dance Magazine and served two years on the Bruce Wood Dance Company board. Past Chair of PSP’s Arts and Culture Committee, she authored and facilitates IMPP’s seminar: The Psychoanalytic Evolution of Art, Aesthetics, and Creativity: From Pathology to Proto-Communication.
Amanda is past chair of the National Association for the Advancement in Psychoanalysis’ (NAAP) Analysts-In-Training Committee, served 5+ years on the American Board for Accreditation in Psychoanalysis, and is a Gradiva Award and Scholarship recipient from NAAP.
Currently, Amanda is a member of the Dallas Psychoanalytic Center, APA Division 39 (Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology), and the Neuropsychoanalysis Society. She is pursuing Dr. Daniel Amen’s Elite Brain Health Certification for Clinicians, focusing on functional brain health, nutrition, supplementation, and SPECT scanning. She is interested in working therapeutically with brain injury cases but also enjoys working with trauma survivors and couples.
Lineage
Amanda’s own psychoanalysis traces back directly to Sigmund Freud through an extraordinary lineage. It begins with Lillian Delger Powers, analyzed by Freud and supervised by Ferenczi, who treated Hyman Spotnitz. Spotnitz then treated Gerald Lucas, who treated Amanda’s training analyst in his Transference and Resistance Workshop. This chain ties Amanda back to history’s greatest psychoanalytic minds in a deeply personal way—after all, one’s training analysis is the cornerstone of psychoanalytic training. Amanda is truly grateful for this heritage and hopes to contribute to its legacy with respect and insight.
