[Considerations on patient admission to the psychiatric services]

In this article the authors consider in a psychoanalytic way the theme of the reception inside a psychiatric territorial service. At the beginning, they underline some characteristics about the psychiatric demand and the setting in a public context, then they describe their experience. After examining how the initial time of the relation influences the subsequent evolution of the therapeutic relation, they conclude with the individuation in the style of relation showed by the patient the lived field, that can be changed into a mental and representative space from an acted and fragmentary space. The skill of the service in changing the field of treatment proposed by the patient, in a field which transforms the action into therapeutic trials, becomes essential at the beginning of the relationship.