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This paper is aimed at studying the psychological demand in the primary health care centers of La Plata city hall and their relationship with the therapeutic strategies. Some questions about the introducing way of the symptom in this contemporary time have emerged and led us to review the discussion on the so-called "new symptoms" within the psychoanalytic field. Thus, a problem arises from an empirical finding: a notorious increase of the psychological demand in the public sphere both in the municipality health centers and the psychopathology and mental health offices of the hospitals. From the bibliographical exegesis and the case-histories analysis some issues on the care provision are pointed out as they involve unselected and diverse consultations. In this sense, some of the answers the psychoanalysis has offered to its social practice will be studied and thereby make us wonder on the necessary twists to set a device that regards the institution policies but keeping the ethics and theoretical-clinical grounds of the psychoanalysis itself. We can only situate the singularity that the psychoanalytic practice demands if we inquire on and displace the generalizations. A practice that should regard the history-case as unique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will glimpse the work focused on the problem of the demand for psychological assistance at Health Centers of La Plata. Regarding this problem, some authors propose the development of an irreducible tension between the scope of the "mental health" and psychotherapeutic practices that follow different solidary perspectives with a search for "therapeuting the psychic", and the psychoanalysis, which proposes to maintain its principles responding to new demand conditions. We consider of importance to take into account the peculiarities of the discomfort presentation, its articulation with the demand for treatment and the coordinates that regulate the functioning of the institutions in which they are inserted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]