This study was based on the theories proposed by Donald W. Winnicott and aimed at elucidating some guidelines for diagnostic classification in several subjective configurations described by this English psychoanalyst. In order to reach this goal, at first, the Theory of Emotional Development was described, highlighting the integration process, the psychosomatic process– psyche indwelling in the soma – and the object relations. Therefore, a chart based on five diagnostic categories (neurosis, psychosis, schizoidism, anti-social tendency and true self and false self) was created with the purpose of outlining the diagnostic criteria established by Winnicott throughout his work. This classification shows Winnicott’s concern with the human dimension of the therapeutic process, creativity and health, as well as with the gravity of psychic disorders involved in psychoanalytic treatment. In this sense, some episodes of clinical management and the important role of holding and interpretation were described (especially in the so-entitled holding-interpretation experiences). By doing so, it was possible to indicate the existence of interpretations which took the place of holding along the therapeutic journey. Consequently, it is believed that the concepts and clinical indications postulated by Winnicott throughout his work can provide us with elements and principles to consider the multiple symptoms of psychical suffering that intersperse contemporary psychoanalitic practice.