This is a review of the international conference on Psychoanalysis and State Regulation organized by The College of Psychoanalysts - UK. I summarize the background leading to the conference and review presentations by psychoanalysts from several other countries about the relationship between psychoanalysis and the state in their countries. There follows a brief description of the key issues considered in parallel workshops during the course of the conference, and a review of those papers at the conference that gave rise to the greatest degree of controversy. Finally, I review the two plenary sessions and the issues raised there, together with an overall view of the outcome of the conference.