The results of the study by Alderson (2001) confirm the pertinence of using the psychodynamics of work approach for better understanding suffering related to the human experience of work and for investigating the field of mental health of nurses in the field. The actual state of research on this psychodynamics of work approach has researchers and theorists proposing it as an interdisciplinary research approach in the domain of work and mental health. This framework will be applied in this paper to discuss Alderson’s findings (2001), the psychodynamics of work approach and finally, the discussion of its pertinence for future developments in Nursing sciences and the field of (mental) health in the work environment.