This article describes the experience of education in Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing in the Nursing College of Federal University of Goiás, marking potentialities and fragilities in the search for new ways of attention in mental health and psychiatry nursing. We detach some important aspects as easy integration among the disciplines of different areas, the contribution to the nurses' general formation in the development of related abilities, management and qualification to understand, to plan and to develop actions that will rescue the humanistic assistance at the health services, with special attention to take care of who take care. The limiting factor found was the fragility of the psychosocial care attention services that constitutes an obstacle and a challenge to be exceed for the implementation of changes in the assistance and education.
Psychiatric Nursing; Mental Health; Nursing Education
