We discuss therapeutic monitoring based on a brief history of clinical tools used in the mental health field. This discussion is based on transference as a psychoanalytical concept. We hypothesize that, in everyday work carried out outside doctors’ offices’ models, users’ words instigate us to establish a connection between theory and practice — and that psychoanalysis itself can gain from it new knowledge for its clinical practices.
Psychoanalysis; clinical tools; therapeutic monitoring; clinical case