Objective: Gather the concepts, theories and interventions about spirituality, its nature and functions in mental health and psychiatric nursing.
Method: A literature review proceeded on February 2016. It has integrated 214 studies published until December 2015 by crossing Spirituality and Psychiatric Nursing mesh terms in databases.
Objective: To analyze the meanings attributed by nursing professionals in psychiatry to spirituality and its relationship with care.
Method: Clinical-qualitative, with appreciation of symbolic meanings. We interviewed 18 individuals for a semi-structured script of open questions and the data were analyzed in the light of psychoanalytic hermeneutics.