The objective in this article is to delimit what is known as subjective urgency and its treatment in mental health institutions. Subjective urgency differs from simple urgency and classical emergency in that it has become subjective because the psychoanalyst's reception can be considered as consisting of three clinical moments: the moment of precipitation that takes the subject to the institution, the moment of reception at the institution, and treatment itself.
Psychoanalysis; subjective urgency; mental health