[Meaning of psychosis by the subject and its effects on clinical nursing]

This study aimed to identify patients' apprehension about the psychic experience of psychosis, indicating a direction for treatment in the light of the psychoanalytic reading. This qualitative study involved nine patients. The analysis was accomplished through discourse categorization. The subjects indicated concern with building a place where their psychic experience is considered in daily reality. With mental health professionals, the subjects can find a new signifier; and create new meanings, leading to the stabilization of symptoms, deriving from the creation of the insane metaphor. The sequence of losses in psychosis makes room for gains, in which the exclusion of the Other provides for the subjectification of a new place for this subject, contributing to the construction of a new life project.