1st Edition

Psychopathology of Work Clinical Observations

By Christophe Dejours Copyright 2015
120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

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 workplace harassment and one in her aggressor); and a... Read more
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

Biography

Dejours, Christophe