The question of the teaching of psychology is taken up here based on factors related to the constitution of medical clinic, of the classics, and of the constitution of the psychiatric clinic. Also analyzed are instruments born of careful attention to suffering and, later, to the domination over illness through nosography, where the pessimistic mark of the asylums turned the clinic into academic exercise. A return to the clinic against empiricism and clinicist essentialism is therefore proposed.
Clinicism; nosography; teaching; fundamental psychophatology