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Benjamin Villeneuve

    Recherche En Soins Infirmiers
    |February 6, 2026
    PubMed
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    This study explores the professional empowerment of psychiatric sector nurses in France, revealing how they developed autonomy through alternative practices and collective action despite institutional changes. It highlights their crucial, yet often overlooked, contributions to psychiatric history.

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    Area of Science:

    • History of Nursing
    • Psychiatric Care
    • Professional Empowerment

    Background:

    • The history of French psychiatry has historically marginalized nurses' contributions.
    • The abolition of the psychiatric sector nurse diploma (ISP) in 1992 further diminished professional identity and knowledge.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To trace the professional trajectories of ISP nurses at Sainte-Marie hospital (1969-2000).
    • To analyze forms of professional empowerment amidst institutional changes in French psychiatry.

    Main Methods:

    • Employed a "history from below" approach.
    • Utilized life stories, institutional archives, personal documents, and professional materials.
    • Applied Zimmerman's framework of psychological empowerment for analysis.
    Keywords:
    interprofessional relationsnarrativesnursing historypsychiatric nursingpsychological empowerment

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    Main Results:

    • Identified strategies of affirmation, alternative clinical practices, and collective dynamics.
    • Demonstrated historically situated forms of empowerment linked to transformations in French psychiatry.

    Conclusions:

    • Zimmerman's framework requires critical re-evaluation in this context.
    • Professional autonomy is best understood through a situated interpretation.
    • Contributes to the history of nursing in France and informs current challenges in psychiatric nursing.