Key words: psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, conceptual revision, corporeality, ethology, argumentative method
The present work suggest a consideration about the concept and the relevance of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Through argumentative method, this article examines the plausibility of the current use of these terms that risk to be restrictive to define the complexity of characteristics that occur during clinic relationship beetween patient and psychotherapist. This work analyzes neuroscientific, ethological, philosophical and clinical research, that support the necessity of epistemic and nominalistic change in the clinical practice, full of corporeality.