[Psychosocial and therapeutic activities in psychiatry].

Psycho sociotherapeutic activities, method of care often used in psychiatry, do not let nurses indifferent when using it. Paradoxically, this relational kind of care cannot easily find its own place among nursing care for mental patients. To answer this contradiction, the hypothesis put forward lays emphasis on the importance nurses give to these activities and the consideration they have for the activity as a care in full. A survey made in all psychiatric hospitals brings to light not only the interest and diversity of these activities but also the difficulties of their admission within nursing care. Should the connection expressed in the hypothesis not been really proved, the results of the survey show the beginning of explanations and, particularly, emphasize the questions.