Direct introduction says that "target" clearly the conditions that give the method of the clinical interview rigor and fertility. And well worth talkative manuals. Following 10 interviews conducted in different situations often qualifiable limits or "extreme" (trauma, hearing loss, addiction, dementia, mental retardation, victimologies) and displayed according to the same principle: almost full restitution of the interview, presentation theories of the clinician, the scope and context, critical report on communication processes involved. A teaching manual to recommend unreservedly no young practitioners of clinical maintains, students in Master and Professional Master of Psychology and also in the first place. Besides, the Universities of Paris 7, Aix-Marseille and Rennes 2 are well represented.