Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic  Society

Saturday, March 21, 2026, 9:30 am-12:30 pm ET

Speaker: Anthony Bass, Ph.D.

“Analytic Change and the Changing Therapist”

In this presentation, Dr. Bass will explore the effect of psychoanalytic work on bothpatient and therapist.  He will elaborate on the question that Ferenczi posed in the lastentry of his 1932 Clinical Diary, "Must every analysis be mutual, and to what extent?"  

The paper argues that change in therapy is a complementary and integral aspect oftherapeutic co-participation, taking place in a shared field of one-of-a-kind experience. 

This is an inherently creative process in which, as Loewald put it, analyst and patientare both artist and medium for one another. Dr. Bass seeks to expand our frame ofreference from one-person perspectives on therapeutic change to a consideration ofwhether and how the therapist must also change in order to help the patient fulfill her orhis potential therapeutic growth. The actualization of own potential in the presence of—and in engagement with—our patients is integral to the therapeutic process.

Learning objectives:

1.  Participants will be able to describe the relevance of Ferenczi’s experiments in mutual analysis to contemporary relational technique.

2. Participants will be able to describe the ways in which the therapist needs the patient to break free from inhibitions that contribute to impasses in the work of therapy.

3, Participants will be able to describe the ways in which unconscious communication in therapeutic relations is central to the change process for both participants.

Anthony Bass, Ph.D. is an associate professor and clinical consultant at the NYUPostdoctoral Program for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and on the faculty of theColumbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where he is alsoa training and supervising analyst.  He was a founding editor and editor-in-chief, and isnow editor emeritus, of Psychoanalytic Dialogues: the International Journal of Relational Perspectives. He was a founding director of IARPP and of the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, of which he is president. He is on the board of directors of the Sándor Ferenczi Center at the New School for Social Research in NYC and leads workshops and seminars on Ferenczi and the therapeutic relationship around the world.

 1 Bass, A. (2024) It Takes Two to Know One: Mutual Relations at the Heart of

Therapeutic Action. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 34:591-609

2 Bass, A. (2024) Unconscious Communication Between Therapist and Patient: The

Ordinary Uncanniness of Everyday Psychoanalytic Life–Back to the Future of

Psychoanalysis. Contemporary Psychoanalysis 60:21-44             

3  Bass, A. (2015) The Dialogue of Unconsciouses, Mutual Analysis and the Uses of the

Self in Contemporary Relational Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 25:2-17

3 CME’S

LOCATION: Virtual - Zoom

CHARGE: Members get up to 21 CMEs/CEUs for free per year.

Non-members pay $25 to attend a 3 hour speaker program meeting and an

additional $20 for CEUs for a total of $45 (or $15/CEU).

Register Online: https://tbps.wildapricot.org/

ACCME Accreditation Statement

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditationrequirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit Designation Statement

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the creditcommensurate with the extent of their    participation in the activity.

The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME,s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. Thisactivity does not have any known commercialsupport.