The objective of the present study was to determine the emotional symptoms that nursing teachers consider normal and abnormal, how they perceive themselves within this frame of reference and how the look upon psychiatric treatment. Who were asked to answer a questionnaire based on a list of symptoms. The results showed that the population studied considered the following symptoms to be part of normal day-to-day living: ansciety, descouragement, depression, aggressiveness, anguish, guiet feelings, inferiority and the wihs to aggrest others; and to be abnormal symptons, not part of daily life, the following ones: delirium, hallucinations, obsessive ideas and the wish to kill.