Christophe Dejours

Psychopathology of Work

Clinical Observations

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 and a suicide.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 122
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9780367324759
• ISBN-10: 036732475X
• Artikelnr.: 57496716

Autorenporträt

Dejours, Christophe

Inhaltsangabe

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

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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