Research on psychoanalytic psychotherapy is identified as having a high level of abstraction, lack of clarity and consensus among clinicians in the constructs operationalization and analysis of reliable results. A rigorous and reliable psychodynamic diagnosis that allows a homogenization of evaluation criteria, increases communication within the scientific community and approaches research to practice. The OPD2's - Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis - objective is to operationalize psychoanalytic constructs, through semi-structured interviews, to formulate a psychodynamic multi-axial diagnosis based on 5 axes: experience of the illness and prerequisites for the treatment (Axis I); interpersonal relationships (Axis II); conflict (Axis III); structure (Axis IV); mental and psychosomatic disorders (Axis V). The OPD-2 was applied in this study with the objective to test the diagnosis evaluation using sessions notes of one patient submitted to psychoanalysis. The realization of the multiaxial diagnosis was generally successful and changes in the focus formulated in the diagnosis were registered.
psychoanalytic psychotherapy; Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis; change