Análise psicodinâmica do adoecimento relacionado ao trabalho em uma empresa no Pólo Industrial de Manaus

Abstract

This empirical work was developed with the general goal of understanding the subjective dimension related to illness progression due to work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMD), in a group of workers performing specific tasks, from a company of the industrial pole of Manaus. The adopted research basis consisted in the theoretical and methodological vision of the psychodynamics of work (PDW), which allowed a psychodynamic analysis related to the subjective dimension of work. Such a method contributes to the promotion of health and presents different steps: pre-research, demand analysis, creation of researchers and workers groups, proper research, research material, clinical observation, interpretation method, validation, and refutation, which were adapted to the real conditions faced by the present researcher. The work clinic’s results indicated the banality of evil, as developed by Dejours, with respect to illness progression related to work, in the mentioned company. The discussion about the obtained results revealed paradoxes in work organization, i.e., suffering caused by leaders and increase in execution speed and workload. The cooperation and mobilization bonds were weakened, the workers’ insight and comprehension were ignored, and there was not an effective monitoring procedure regarding illness progression due to workload. Anxiety and insecurity were present, due to the fear of employment loss caused by WRMD and the current Brazilian economical crisis. The adopted collective strategies were primarily defensive and the studied group developed high tolerance to injustice in daily work. In the individual dimension, a behavior characterized by submission and resignation related to extra workload was noticed, which was mainly driven by the need for subsistence. As a result of the work-clinic process, it was possible to identify individual initiatives regarding confrontation strategies, in order to promote good health, and signs of understanding regarding suffering. The analyzed group did not present mobilization towards political emancipation or confrontation strategies, with respect to the suffered violence, possibly due to a fragile condition related to illness progression.