The aim of the article consists in understanding the most frequent reasons that make people abandon and give up psychotherapeutic treatment in a clinical school in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, during the 2010 period. It is in fact a documental survey, based on a quantitative, descriptive and correctional approach, developed through the collection of data contained in 154 records of users of the service. The reasons for the abandonment of the psychotherapeutic treatment, in most cases, were due to: excessive absences, lack of interest in the continuity of the treatment, change of address, the impossibility to bring the patient and lack of time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]