[Adherence and alleance: psychoanalytic observations at the service of medicine.]

About the relationship between medicine and psychoanalysis it has been written a lot, in primis in the psycho-somatic perspective, in secundis in the psychic modulation of health and disease. In this paper a different perspective is adopted. Both psychoanalysis and medicine are currently confronted with different patients than in the past, indeed nowadays patients are often more fragile, as in the somatic as in the psychic problems. For this reason in both disciplines the theme of adherence to treatment is very important, to which the theme of the relationship is linked. The aim of this work is to contaminate medical thinking about adherence with concepts, surveys, observations, that psychoanalysis has developed about its patients. In other words, we propose a declination in the medical field of some reflections that psychoanalysts and psychotherapists have elaborated about the adherence of their patients.