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For almost 20 years now, Lyon has been home to a university training course in psychology called Formation à partir de la pratique (FPP – Practice-Based Teaching). This course is intended for professionnals who are involved in interpersonal relationships in their daily practice; as such, they will be considered as student-researchers.The purpose of FPP is to develop a clinical position through an elaboration process, that assumes the practitioner’s progressive disengagement from his or her practice and its correlated identifications. The aim is to think about the links between professional “users” and institutions using ad hoc referential theories. The position of clinical psychologist can be characterized from an analogous disengagement, the ability to draw oneself out (secondarily) of confusion or from the “fragmentation” taking place during relationship to a “user” or a group, to produce representation and meaning. The training process proposed by the FPP presents a close analogy to achieving this goal. In this sense the course brings an original answer to the epistemological paradox which can be encountered during any training in clinical psychology. It highlights a practice, and its author aims at progressive and subjective representation, a (re)discovery, and appropriation of theory, the “re-organization” of identifications, thus generating a change of position toward practice and “users.”