This book, *The Practice of the Clinical Interview: A Lacanian Perspective*, is a course on "Theory and Technique of the Psychological Interview" that Massimo Recalcati taught between 1999 and 2001 at the University of Urbino. This publication originated from a set of notes that circulated among his students until the author reviewed the transcripts, edited them, and published them in 2017 under the title *The Practice of the Clinical Colloquium: A Lacanian Perspective*, by Raffaello Cortina Editore. The approach taken in this course offers a valuable introduction to the field of the clinical interview. The first part of the book covers the elements that comprise the practice of the interview: the symptom, the demand, and transference. The second part addresses the problem of differential diagnosis: How does the subject's discourse appear linked to the underlying structure (neurosis, ...read more











