The present review deals with the book; O ser da compreensão: fenomenologia da situação de psicodiagnóstico (The being of comprehension: phenomenology of psycho-diagnosis situation), by Monique Rose-Aimée Augras. The authour presents a work of excellent quality taking into consideration the comprehensiness of the subject na the reader. The beginners and the already initiated in the practice of psychodiagnosis will find a clear and consistent work divided in seven chapter, allowing the reader to aunderstand and analyze the proposal of the author.