[Nurse and Psychosocial Attention Center's users informal caregiver: expressed health need]

The informal caregivers of mental suffering persons may present healthcare needs, by living together, such as conflicts in day life, crisis situations, social discrimination, guilt, and others. This research aims to comprehend the healthcare needs of Psychosocial Attention Center's (PSAC) users' informal caregiver. It is a descriptive research. Nine informal caregivers who take part of a PSAC's family support group were interviewed, using Alfred Schutz's social phenomenology. After analyzing the interviews, two categories have emerged: "Learning" and "Experience Exchange". It was evidenced that the informal caregiver aims knowledge by exchanging experience among each other, and articulating their practical knowledge with the health professionals' theoretical knowledge. It was concluded that the healthcare needs of PSAC's users' informal caregiver must base nursing practice as conceiving health education as a reflexive action, in order to value this clientele's knowledge and experience.