Anthony Bass, ph.d.

I am a clinical psychologist/psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. I see adults, adolescents, and couples in psychotherapy and offer supervisory consultations for individuals and groups.

I am on the faculty and a clinical consultant (supervising analyst) at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where I was formerly a chairperson of the relational track, and teach seminars on the therapy relationship, and the work of Sandor Ferenczi.

In addition, I am on the faculty of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where I am a training and supervising analyst, and in the department of psychiatry. I teach relational technique in the psychoanalytic training program, and teach on the origins of trauma theory in the trauma informed psychotherapy program at Columbia. I was a founder and am president of the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center. I was the 2018 visiting professor at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute.

I did my psychoanalytic training at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, completed my MS. M.Phil and Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Columbia University, earned another masters degree in education at Harvard, and studied child and family therapy at the California Graduate School of Family and Child Therapy, affiliated at the time with the Marin Family Therapy Institute, during which time I studied Eriksonian Hypnosis and strategic therapies at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto.

I was a founding editor, former editor in chief and now editor emeritus of Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives. I am a founding and current board director of The International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. In addition, I am on the board of directors of the Sandor Ferenczi Center of New York., where I lead seminars on Ferenczi's work. I lecture, lead clinical workshops, seminars and study groups in relational psychoanalytic clinical theory throughout the North America, South America, Europe, and Israel. My next seminar, a ten session year long monthy virtual seminar is on the Clinical Diary of Sandor Ferenczi at the New School starting in September, 2025. Upcoming seminars at the Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Center and the Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Center in Spring, 2026, You can see my new interview at the Between Us psychotherapy podcast on Spotify.

I can be reached to schedule a clinical or supervisory consultation hour, or to discuss lectures, private seminars and clinical workshops at [email protected] or by phone at 917-225-0140