Abstract
The history and evolution of nursing practice in psychiatry provide us with some insights regarding the training needs of today's nurses. The care relationship, the central focus of practice, has been constructed as treatments have advanced and care has become more humanised. Nurses have been able to forge their professional identity on the basis of the "clinical nursing science, psychiatry and human sciences" triptych. The implementation of advanced practice, which essentially involves the delegation of medical acts, must not overshadow the need to develop nurses' specialisation in the clinical field in order to respond to patients' suffering.
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