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In the autumn of 2019 as the president elected of the Finnish Psychoanalytical Society I received an email from psychologist Gustav Molander who had been in psychoanalysis about fifty years ago. He remained deeply angry and upset about how he had been treated in his personal analysis. He demanded a public apology to be made by the whole Finnish psychoanalytic profession and referred to the apology APsaA had made to the LGBTQ+ Community in June 2019. This email exchange initiated a process of several stages and discussions which culminated on the 1st of July 2022 when the Finnish Psychoanalytical Society publicly apologized for pathologizing theories and the harm they have caused to sexual and gender minorities. This article is the author’s personal view of the process but the process itself was carried out in close teamwork.