ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysts Association is unique among seemingly analogous professional groups in giving shelter under one roof to the professional, educational, and scientific objectives of its membership. Their integration of these diverse functions is no accident; it is the appropriate manifestation of a science whose professional activity has, metapsychologically, the same objective as its education and research: an enlargement of the realm of awareness, a widening of the scope of the ego. Psychoanalytic education would ultimately tend to deteriorate if it devoted itself to its own educational and scientific goals without the currently existing deep intermeshing with broader professional and social aims, and, especially, without the openness to influence by those whose interests have remained in the central areas of psychoanalytic study and research. Psychoanalytic research and with it, genuine psychoanalytic therapy and education must maintain itself against seductions and attacks from two opposite directions.
