This paper reflects on the relation between clinical practice and public health using narratives of clinical cases of babies treated by the Public Health System’s Primary Care with the support of the psychoanalytical theory. It was observed that the encounter involving user knowledge, the technical knowledge of the subject matters, and the knowledge of Public Health produced a motion that circulates on a paradoxical surface, producing a relation of “moebian supplementarity” between clinical practice and public health.
Clinical practice; public health; early childhood; psychoanalysis