Psychopathology of Work: Clinical Observations

ISBN-13: 9780367324759 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 120 str.

Christophe Dejours

Opis

This book examines the processes at issue in the onset of psychiatric disorders linked to stress in the workplace. Six clinical observations are presented: an acute psychosomatic decompensation (status asthmaticus); a delirious episode; a dementia-like confusional state; a sexuality disorder; two successive decompensations (one in a victim of wo

Spis treści

Series Editor’s Foreword -- Introduction -- Madness and work: from aetiological analysis to theoretical contradictions (a case of status asthmaticus) -- What the psychopathology of work can bring to the study of an acute delirious episode -- “Doctor, can you get Alzheimer’s at my age?” A mysterious deterioration of the cognitive functions in a forty-year-old patient -- “Centrality of work” and sexuality theory -- Psychological harassment at work: the subjugation of the body -- New forms of servitude and suicide

O autorze

Dejours, Christophe