Since the Freudian construction of Psychoanalytic purposes, the foundations for the psychotherapy treatment have suffering profound transformations. However the understanding of the outcomes for patients in the therapeutic strategies used in the psychotherapeutic relationship need to be better discussed. Although the technique has been used in various contexts and submitted to a technical theoretical-structure, it lacks elements that help to evaluate both whether pedagogical actions employed to this education to potentize the professional actuation and whether they are effectives for the establishment of pillars for this practice.

To discuss the psychological meanings of outcomes of a psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic process for young and adults ex-patients who has used a clinical-school of a Brazilian federal university.

Clinical-qualitative method whose sample was closed by information of saturation. The data was collected through semi-directed interviews, registered and transcribed for further Qualitative Content Analysis of Enunciation, based on a psychoanalytic theoretic framework.

Preliminary data have emerged three thematic categories: the treatment as an escape from a death the life generates, expressed by pain of the overload's life; the maternal function attributed to the therapist and demonstrated through idealizations; and the pain felt by him/herself regarding perceptions of being a different one.

These categories support the reflection of treatment goals currently in public services and they permit to improve the approach to these users and to explore constitutive elements of the teaching-learning process.