The work aims to discuss the use of clinical indicators in researchers on psychoanalytic orientation. The use of those indicators in the health field is already well stablished, but it is unusual in the psychoanalytical research. Nevertheless, it is possible to put together, in some aspects, the way of producing knowledge in psychoanalysis and the way used by similar sciences. Based on the idea previously exposed, the examination of the existing tensions created between the psychoanalytical and medical speeches, not separating them, but producing an articulation of the two fields is discussed.
clinical indicators; psychoanalytical research; medical speech; mental health; public health