ABSTRACT
Nursing training is provided in nursing training institutes by a multidisciplinary teaching team. During this course, the nursing student will forge his or her professional identity. However, psychiatry is a field that is not very popular with students. Social representations, apprehension and lack of knowledge of the discipline, and the crisis that the sector is going through all work against this choice. Especially since young nurses are ill-equipped to develop a sufficiently good posture, in line with the expectations of the health care team. Nevertheless, some of those who have chosen to work in psychiatry emphasize the notion of encounters as a determining factor in their professional orientation. This encounter is based on three stages: an encounter with oneself, with specific knowledge and with the clinic.
