Clinical care nursing in mental health: reflections on a practice nurse

Objective: Understand how clinical care in nursing can develop into a perspective that considers the person in distress as subject of this practice. Method: Work result of workshop with 17 nurses who work in the day-care Center of Fortaleza. Results: Through analysis of the lines of the nurses at the workshop, we come to the elaboration of the following categories: that subject matter. Subject and listening for who cares. The workshop allowed the nurses approach of other theoretical and methodological references to conceptualize the subject beyond Cartesian as, for example, the reference of psychoanalysis, allowing the nurse recognizes that the process of care is complex and demand actions based on the uniqueness of each subject. Conclusion: psychoanalysis emerges as a theoretical tool that can contribute to the nurse in this endeavor as it constructs a listening space, whose knowledge is supposed to be the person who speaks.