Taking into account the differences between the psychiatric and the psychoanalytical symptoms as well as the specificity of the psychopharmacological dimension in medicine, the author discusses the importance of psychoanalysis’ keeping up with advances in psychopharmacology and at the same time the importance of not dissociating the medical act from such psychoanalytical operational concepts as “transfer” and “subject”.
Psychiatry; psychoanalysis; psychiatric symptom; psychoanalytical symptoms; psychopharmacon