Abstract
One of the major trends in humanistic sciences (mainly in psychotherapy, social works, pedagogy, and sociology) formed in the 2nd half of the twentieth century as the result of ongoing changes in the social science paradigm and is starting to establish itself also in nursing as a systematic approach. Its contribution resides mainly in the view of an individual and society offering new possibilities in how to treat social and psychosocial phenomena, including health and illness.
In our article we focus on the fundamental introduction of the issue of systematic and constructivist epistemology and philosophy and social constructivist narrative presumptions affecting the perception of health and illness not only by lays/patients but also by the helping professionals/nurses in present nursing