Abstract

FERRAZ, Flávio Carvalho. Preliminary interviews and the choice of technique. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2012, vol.46, n.4, pp.48-56. ISSN 0486-641X.

Preliminary interviews in psychoanalysis have a broad diagnostic purpose, which is not reduced to the classification of the patient within frames of nosographic psychopathology. Since Freud, however, the effort in differentiating neurotic from psychotic has always had a stronger emphasis. Authors from various schools expanded and enriched a theory of the interview, collaborating with the passage from an empirical procedure to an epistemological investigation. The present paper defends the value of Maurice Dayan's concept of idiopathic singularity for the evaluation of psychic functioning in the preliminary interviews and the consequent choice of the technique to be employed in the work of analysis.

Keywords : preliminary interviews; psychoanalytic technique; idiopathic singularity.

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