Tuesday 27 November 2007

Unintended, yet not unanticipated

This snippet is from Roger Litten's presentation at the College of Psychoanalysts-UK International Conference PSYCHOANALYSIS AND STATE REGULATION, 31 March-1 April 2006



... not only does regulation not achieve what it claims to set out to achieve
but also entails consequences and effects that just happen to be the very opposite of what it claims

In other words we set out from a rationale for regulation, elaborated on the basis of a discourse of public protection, only to stumble into a system of audit and accountability that at certain points can be seen to provide no protection at all to the very people it claims to serve.

Follow the link in the title of this entry, and you will find the full text of this talk.

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