Amanda Lenox
Certified Psychoanalyst
Experience
Amanda Lenox is a certified modern psychoanalyst and licensed therapist specializing in trauma, attachment, and relationships, offering telehealth psychoanalytic psychotherapy to clients in New York, New Jersey, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Florida.
She is a graduate of The Institute for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies of Philadelphia (IMPP; formerly PSP), and 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 private practice.
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. She is past chair of IMPP's Arts and Culture Committee.
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 NAAP Gradiva Award and Scholarship recipient.
Amanda is a member of the Dallas Psychoanalytic Center, APA Division 39 (Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology), and the Neuropsychoanalysis Society.
Psychoanalytic Lineage
Sigmund Freud analyzed Lillian Delger Powers, who also undertook a control analysis with Sándor Ferenczi. Powers was supervised by Wilhelm Reich and didactically trained by Theodor Reik.
Karl Abraham analyzed Sándor Radó. Radó analyzed Heinz Hartmann, René Spitz, Otto Fenichel, and Wilhelm Reich — the same Reich who supervised Powers. Sándor Ferenczi analyzed Melanie Klein and Sándor Lorand.
Lillian Delger Powers analyzed Hyman Spotnitz. Spotnitz was supervised by Sándor Radó and Sándor Lorand, and was hired by S. R. Slavson at the Jewish Board of Guardians.
Spotnitz analyzed Gerald Lucas. Lucas analyzed Stephen Ellis and was his didactic teacher. Lucas was also the didactic teacher of Bill Grey.
Ellis is Amanda's supervisor and didactic teacher. Ellis worked as a social worker at the Jewish Board of Guardians during Spotnitz's time there, and attended Spotnitz's lectures as well as Yonata Feldman's brown-bag lunches. Ellis analyzed Grey, who analyzed Amanda.
Amanda's own psychoanalysis traces back directly to Sigmund Freud through an extraordinary lineage:
Freud → Powers → Spotnitz → Lucas → Ellis → Grey → Lenox
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.
