TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dejours,Christophe
TI  - Psychopathology of Work: Clinical Observations
T2  - The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series
SN  - 9781782413417
AV  - RC967 .P793 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Karnac Books
KW  - Industrial psychiatry
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Work
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Mental illness
KW  - Occupational diseases
KW  - Labor
KW  - Mental Disorders
KW  - Occupational Diseases
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Madness and work: from aetiological analysis to theoretical contradictions (a case of status asthmaticus); CHAPTER TWO What the psychopathology of work can bring to the study of an acute delirious episode; CHAPTER THREE "Doctor, can you get Alzheimer's at my age?" A mysterious deterioration of the cognitive functions in a forty-year-old patient; CHAPTER FOUR "Centrality of work" and sexuality theory; CHAPTER FIVE Psychological harassment at work: the subjugation of the bodyCHAPTER SIX New forms of servitude and suicide; INDEX; 2; b
N2  - 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 suicide. Each is explored in detail, from aetiology to treatment, bringing into sharp relief the differences between conventional analysis and the interpretation of material in light of the reference t
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