Abstract

COUTINHO, Alberto Henrique Soares de Azeredo. Listening can be precise, diagnosing cannot. Reverso [online]. 2007, vol.29, n.54, pp. 99-108. ISSN 0102-7395.

Stemming from clinical studies, the author discusses the accuracy of clinical structuralism in Psychoanalysis while emphasizing the double function - diagnostic and therapeutic - of analytical listening.

Keywords : Clinical structures; Diagnosis in psychoanalysis; Preliminary interview; Perversion; Obsessive neurosis.

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