This plenary address was delivered just before learning the successful outcome of a bylaw amendment extending full American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) membership to psychoanalytic psychotherapists, researchers, scholars, and all who share a commitment to psychoanalysis. This historic change culminated efforts over the previous four decades to rectify exclusionary harms and revitalize psychoanalysis in the United States as a clinical practice and a cultural force. Membership expansion is discussed in the historical and sociological context of psychoanalysis as a profession with a focus on organizational resistance to change. Professionalization established and legitimized psychoanalysis but also contained the seeds of gradual decline as monopoly over training and practice distanced APsA from the wider psychoanalytic community. Expanding membership beyond the profession is a step toward uniting the community and strengthening all applications of psychoanalysis, including the traditional form. These developments at APsA reflect changes in other disciplines that feature inclusion, generosity, situated learning, and distributed subjectivity in epistemic communities of practice.

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精神分析——不仅仅是一种职业：美国精神分析协会主席致辞，纽约，2023 年 2 月 3 日

本次全体会议演讲是在获知一项章程修正案取得成功之前发表的，该修正案将美国精神分析协会（APsA）的正式会员资格扩大到精神分析心理治疗师、研究人员、学者和所有共同致力于精神分析的人。这一历史性的变化是过去四十年来纠正排他性伤害并重振美国精神分析作为临床实践和文化力量的努力的顶峰。成员扩张是在精神分析作为一种职业的历史和社会学背景下讨论的，重点关注组织对变革的抵制。专业化确立了精神分析并使其合法化，但也埋下了逐渐衰落的种子，因为对培训和实践的垄断使 APsA 与更广泛的精神分析界疏远了。将会员扩大到专业之外是团结社区和加强精神分析所有应用（包括传统形式）的一步。 APsA 的这些发展反映了其他学科的变化，这些变化的特点是认知实践社区中的包容性、慷慨、情境学习和分布式主观性。