Patient Presentation: (re)discovering the clinical dimension. On the last years, the practice of patient presentation comes growing in the psychoanalytic field, and this is, without a doubt, because of the incontestable clinical effects that it produces. To become a critical analysis and to advance in the elaborations concerning the presentation, it is necessary to know the conceptual bases on which the process occurred. This work has as objective to sketch a historical mapping, seeking for identifying the circumstances of its sprouting, transformations through which it passed until its use at the current moment.
Presentation of patients; psychoanalysis; clinic