The author looks into the main concepts of the.psico-dramatic method and its the possibility of its use in educating nurses, particularly the "role-playing" in the classroom, aiming at developing interpersonal relationship and social roles, by means of a sponteneous education. Two situations are described, in which this method was employed in a "Getting the Student Acquainted with the Nursing Profession" class, for freshmen in the Graduate Course of UNICAMP. It is verified that the method provides the student with virtual experience for the three different stages of the "role-taking", the "role-playing" and the "role-creating".