ABSTRACT
The first chapter, Clinical Devices, lays the foundation for the entire book by discussing the use of the concept of device in psychoanalytic work. First, we review the definition of this concept by the philosophers who developed it (Foucault, Deleuze, and Agamben). Next, we describe its application in psychoanalytic clinical practice. To do so, we distinguish between device and setting or frame and argue that present-day psychoanalysts should work with flexible parameters in order to respond to increasingly complex psychopathologies. The chapter ends with two clinical vignettes that illustrate our thesis.
