This book examines the processes at issue in the onset of psychiatric disorders linked to stress in the workplace. Six clinical observations are presented in this book: 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 workplace harassment and one in her aggressor - and a suicide.

Each is explored in detail, from etiology to treatment, bringing into sharp relief the differences between conventional analysis and the interpretation of material in...

This book presents a new account of the significance and the human costs of work. A collaboration between experts in philosophy, social theory, and clinical psychology, it brings together empirical research with incisive analysis of work's political stakes to present a diagnosis of the pathologies of contemporary work and propose powerful remedies.