Professional regulatory systems often refer to rehabilitation and remediation to describe the route to safe practise following a breach of a code of ethics. In the USA the notion of rehabilitation is commonplace, with centres across the country for rehab, from medical rehabilitation, to drug and alcohol, to centres for sex addiction and even for professional misconduct. The notion of a second chance and recovering after a failure is widely accepted and state licensing boards may include officers whose job it is to monitor registrants rehabilitation following a finding of fact. Here in the UK rehab is most often associated with drug and alcohol recovery or with life after a criminal conviction. The term is from time to time used in relation to professional conduct, remediation being the term more frequently used in guidance to regulatory panels. Remediation too is a challenging concept in the UK, and although the first dictionary definition is helpful ‘The action of remedying some
In October 2011 three psychoanalysts in France (Eric Laurent, Esthela Solano-Suarez and Alexandre Stevens) successfully sued the film-maker Sophie Robert for including their views of the origins and treatment of Autism in her film 'The Wall or psychoanalysis put to the test for autism' (they claim their views were 'distorted'). The judgement included a requirement to remove the sections including the litigants, to pay a fine and to pay legal costs. Since beginning this blog piece the film was removed from the internet, following a request from Robert's lawyer. This means that the piece below is incomplete, however we decided to publish it anyway, as the issue is important and deserving of more coverage in the UK than has so far been the case. The 30 analysts interviewed in the film base their thinking on Lacanian theory and the work of Bruno Bettelheim , together with elements of Winnicott and Levi-Strauss . Analyst after analyst line up to articulate their