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It was intended to analyze mediation strategies (defense and coping) of Venezuelans to deal with experiences of suffering at work, reflecting about the impacts on their mental health. It is a qualitative, cross-sectional and exploratory research with 16 Venezuelan migrants living in the southern region of Brazil. A sociodemographic questionnaire and a semi-structured interview were used, with data interpreted by Content Analysis. The defense strategies were denial, control, isolation, and rationalization. Those coping were support at work, learning and leaving the company. Mental health at work was linked to feelings of belonging, appreciation, and growth, dialoguing with the meaning of work, while pathological suffering appeared mainly in unemployed women, with depressive symptoms and suicidal thoughts. It is noticed that work is central to them, their identities, and subjectivities. COVID-19 has increased vulnerabilities, especially among the unemployed. Crucial points that need greater attention were highlighted, providing clues that can support clinical practices and public policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In March 2020, a health emergency was declared in Brazil due to the covid-19 pandemic. This has brought major changes to daily work, making it necessary to adopt duty rosters to combine onsite and remote work, contributing to the decrease in the movement of people with the aim of slowing the spread of the virus. Mental health assumed a prominent place, emerging as a major social concern, which led to an increase in responsibilities and expectations regarding the performance of the team of psychologists in the coordination of worker's health in a noteworthy federal public health institution. The objective of the article is to produce a dialogue between the work experience of this team and concepts offered by the ergological perspective and by the Psychodynamics of work, seeking to broaden both the understanding of the concepts and the experience of mental health care in the context of the covid-19 health emergency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyze the problems faced by live-line electricians (ELV) of electrical power distribution networks with regard to aspects related to work in the task of pruning vegetation. To this end, an adapted version of the Ergonomic Analysis of Work (EAW) was applied. Subsequently, semi-structured interviews were conducted with the ELV team, and the speeches were treated according to content analysis and discussed from the perspective of Activity Ergonomics and Psychodynamics of Work. The difficulties faced by the ELV team are not only related to the physiological aspects resulting from the efforts made in the face of high demand but are also mainly related to the technical and organizational devices of the work. However, it was possible to identify aspects linked to the dimension of pleasure associated with issues of craft, of work well done and apparently invisible to society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from a research in psychodynamics of work, the paper aims to explain the consequences of the new forms of work organization on the activity of deliberation and cooperation of workers, on the one hand, and on their possibilities of development and action, on the other hand. It is particularly concerned with showing how the denial of reality and living labor, supported by managerial transformations in the organization of work, disqualifies the language of activity emanated from workers and bars access to effective work, thus "preventing" deliberation on living labor. Finally, it questions the necessary conditions for a reinstatement of deliberation, so that it takes precedence over a thought invaded by the social imaginary and that can open the way to the challenge of symbolic domination and to the resistance to governance by numbers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The organization of work is closely related to how employees perceive the multiple aspects (either positive or negative) of their work activity. The approach of psychodynamics of work deals precisely with the effects of work on the workers' mental health, in particular with the pleasure or pain it produces. That is why we consider it appropriate to discuss the organization of work from the perspective of the psychodynamics of work, which gives significant knowledge contributions for this complex reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cooperation is a fundamental part of the construction of the workers' mental health and an essential pillar for building a work environment where there are trust at work. The objective of this paper is debating the formal and the informal cooperation networks which exist in the work of labor judges and the impacts they exert in facing the real work. Although the formal evaluation methods of judges are basically quantitative and individualist and there are no institutional mechanisms which reinforce the peer-to-peer exchanges and value the return of experience, we can observe the creation of cooperation networks within peers. This paper is part of the research "Constructing intersectorality in the field of occupational health: Perspective of Professionals in the Services Network of the City of São Paulo", sponsored by FAPESP. The methodology is based on the concepts of Psychodynamics of Work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a reflection on work in call centers given the proposals presented by the anthropotechnological approach. The issues addressed relate to researches conducted especially in the 1990s and 2000s in different companies located in Brazil, where health problems, such as RSI / WMSD, together with mental disorders, emerged with high levels of incidence and prevalence. The results of the chosen approaches, activity ergonomics and work psychodynamics, were discussed in terms of the widespread dissemination of this type of work throughout different countries, setting a type of transfer and technology. Thus, the transfer of forms of work organization inspired in assumptions derived from Taylorism, disregarding the reality experienced by the workers and the uniqueness of each context, are questioned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We aim to identify the methodological principles that seem to be crucial in a psychodynamics of work scenario, through a field experience, in order to avoid the risk of materialization that threatens all that adopt this subject. Next, we analyse the difficulties inherent to this type of intervention, such as the questions that remain unanswered associated to the prevention principle and to the status of these surveys. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Is the psychodynamics of work a relevant theoretical reference for analyzing the work of the top manager and the effects of this work on their subjectivity? The aim of the present study is to reflect about this question as well as a about the results of a research focused on a clinical analysis of the top manager's "self-presentation", considered one of the main aspects of the top manager's work. After an introduction that presents the implications of a research carried out on 15 top managers in France, the approach adopted and a summary of the key results, the discussion will bring to light the theoretical and methodological changes necessary to investigate the field of top management, a field that until now has been frequently under cultivated by the field of work sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The text presents the results of a study developed 20 years ago by the author in light of the concept of "recognition of work" according to the psychodynamics of work. This study was the first of a series of other works that followed in the next 15 years related to the struggle of petroleum workers against the"enxugamento de pessoal"policy, the Brazilian version of downsizing. A policy applied in the 1990s by the company management in the wake of a policy known as productive restructuring which was widely adopted by Brazilian and international firms and particularly by the petroleum sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The theme of sustainability, increasingly present in the world of production, is generally presented as an issue involving the environment and social responsibility. The purpose of this article is first to propose a discussion on sustainability where the issue of work becomes central and secondly by proposing a sustainable vision for approaching work, in an attempt to bring this issue to the centre of the debate. Despite this proposal seeking to include work on the agenda of sustainability, this is not a new issue. The different disciplines that deal with work include this theme in their conceptual framework, even if they do not make sustainable work an explicit issue. In the case presented here, the proposal to create a sustainable view of work proposes a discussion among the different disciplines that deal with production, work design and management and is based on the ergonomics of activity and the psychodynamics of work. The argument proposed is based on a case study carried out with workers in the Family Health Program in Brazil and, more specifically, the Community Health Agents. The results of the study reveal fundamental aspects of the work these people do and show that, to develop public health programs that can be considered sustainable, i.e. that endure and are able to achieve their objectives, it is fundamental that work is treated from the perspective of its inscription in time, of the construction of health, together with personal and professional development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]