This dissertation aims to investigate the role of the analyst in the clinic with individuals who are at risk of suicide. For this, we make use of a literature review and also bring brief clinical vignettes throughout the work. We carried out a historical rescue carried out by George Minois on the problem of suicide and how the theme was approached throughout history. Secondly, we turn to psychiatry s reflections on psychopathologies, which are so widespread today, and the strong association between depression and the risk of suicide. Subsequently, we turn to psychoanalysis inaugurated by Sigmund Freud and his contribution to the theme. In addition, we collect the contributions of psychoanalysts Sándor Ferenczi and Donald Winnicott on the importance of the environment in the psychic constitution and environmental failures that occur in this process. They are authors who helped us with the concept of trauma, ego cleavage and early environmental failures. Finally, still anchored in the contributions to the difficult cases of Ferenczi and Winnicott, we about the place of the analyst and address the concepts of the analyst s tact, elasticity of the technique and regression to dependence in the analytical setting, in addition to highlighting the importance of holding in the clinic with patients who present the risk of suicide.