Citation

Santonja JM, Marques ACR. Inf. Psychiatr. 2011; 87(2): 75-82.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, John Libbey Eurotext)

DOI

10.1684/ipe.2011.0740

PMID

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Abstract

Recently, the extensive media coverage of suicides in the workplace has highlighted one aspect of the relationship of man to his work: that of a possible pathogenic role of certain situations that can cause psychological problems. The success of the concept of moral harassment can be understood by analyzing the societal context in which it has developed. The importance and the magnitude of this phenomenon cannot be reduced to the issue of depression in the workplace. This applies to the concept of social exclusion and psychiatric care provided to people in the street environment. In both cases, these phenomena existed before their conceptualization and their legal treatment, for the former case and the second for caregivers. In both cases some sort of evidence is tending to be constructed around the idea that these two problems have a place within the scope of psychiatry.

Language: fr

Keywords

Suicide; Sociology; Harassment; Occupational medicine; Psychiatric illness; Homeless; Semiotics; Exclusion; Depressio