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2025-2026 Speakers

Saturday September 20, 9:30 am-12:30 pm

Vera Békes, Ph.D. (New York). “Implicit Relational Learning and Change During Treatment”

Saturday October 18, 9:30 am-12:30 pm

John Auerbach, Ph.D. (Plantation, FL). “God Said to Abraham”: The Binding of Isaac Revisited

Saturday November 22, 9:30 am-12:30 pm

Gerard Fromm, Ph.D. (Stockbridge, MA). “Fear of Breakthrough: Winnicott and the Transmission of Trauma”

Saturday January 17, 2026, 1:30 pm -4:30 pm

Aisha Abbasi, M.D. (Portland, OR) *HORACIO ARIAS LECTURE* “Transference,

Countertransference, and Transformation: Exploring the Dynamics of the Analyst’s Relocation”

Saturday February 21, 2026, 9:30 am-12:30 pm

Dionne Powell, M.D. (New York) “Becoming Raced: Psychic Consequences of Transgenerational Racial Trauma”

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

Anthony Bass, Ph.D. (New York) “Analytic Change and the Changing Therapist”

Saturday May 2, 2026, 9:30 am-12:30 pm

Caroline Sehon, M.D., FABP (Bethesda, MD) “Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Hearing the Nursery Echo in Adult Analysis”.

TBPS provides high quality continuing education seminars and study groups in psychoanalytic theory and clinical application. It offers a supportive, inclusive, collegial community for mental health professionals in the Tampa Bay area.