This text presents the case-building method based on clinical research developed in psychoanalysis. Three axes of this procedure are pointed out as methodological tools to deal with elements obtained from the subjects’ accounts, which consist of the following binomials: history/case; supervision/construction; concepts/distinctions. Case building is the core of psychoanalysis’s contribution to psychopathology as a diagnostic tool and an orientation in treatment, as well as its contribution to mental health through its application in different modes of psychosocial attention and in interdisciplinary work.
Clinical case; psychoanalysis; psychopathology; mental health