Abstract

JUNIOR, Admardo B. G.  and  CUNHA, Daisy M.. The symptom at work: a dysfunction or an invention?. Laboreal [online]. 2015, vol.11, n.2, pp.53-62. ISSN 1646-5237.  https://doi.org/10.15667/laborealxi0215aj.

This article presents a discussion about the activity of the "psi" professional in listening and in the clinical management of cases of suffering at work, the need to establish the causal relationship between illness and work, the subsequent actions and the problems that lie in the field of mental health. We seek to briefly place the discussion around the psychological, social and organic causality, arguing the issue of causality in the health field and, specifically, the mental health field. Our second step is to submit a clinical case of work psychopathology, a classic in Brazilian lit erature, where the causal connection is questioned with the richness of the data. Two versions of the same case are contrasted and discussed in their differences. At the end, we raise problems for the professional activity of the "psi" in the work field, including one that stands out and allows us to spot an important point of investigation: the deadlock between taking the symptom as dysfunction or as an operating mode.

Keywords : Work; Symptom; Causal connection..

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