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MISSION STATEMENT

Mission

Inspired by the spirit of collegiality, openness, and diversity, the Tampa Bay Institute for
Psychoanalytic Studies, Inc (T-BIPS) offers training programs, workshops, seminars, and discussion
groups to clinicians interested in learning more about psychoanalytic ideas. TBIPS also provides
community outreach via The Veterans Family Initiative, Inc (VFI) and an interface with the arts
through events and discussions of local theatre productions, films, literature, and television.

Philosophy

Understanding that the capacity to think analytically best develops in an atmosphere of inquiry, open
dialogue, and active participation, TBIPS seeks to integrate these values into our structure and into the
process of training. Collaboration and mutual respect for the contributions of all faculty, candidates,
and participants infuses our endeavors.

Mobius Strip Logo

. Ehrenberg wrote that the analytic dialogue, including intersubjective experience, where transference
is not separate from countertransference, requires “something like turning our experience ‘inside out’
—opening … the ‘internal boundary’ of the relationship and explicating our experience from inside. “
TBIPS chose as its logo the mobius strip (a common symbol for the interconnectedness of things and
for infinity) because its inside and outside are inextricably connected. Just as the inside and outside
worlds of human experience are contextualized in one another, the past always contextualized in the
present, the present in the past, and foreground experience always embedded in background
relationship and meaning, so, too, the analytic dialogue has no ‘inside’ and no ‘outside. ‘