This paper reflects on the experience of the research “Applied Psychoanalysis and the Practice in the Community”, based on the clinical service offered to the officers of the 10th Military Police Battalion of Rio de Janeiro State. In it we think about the particular characteristics of the psychoanalytic treatment of policemen, in order to understand the contingency of the possible management for traumatic events, so as to welcome the excess of jouissance present in the testimony that the policemen bring of their symptoms and passages to the act.
Psychoanalysis; police; trauma; clinic