A queixa de assédio moral no trabalho e a psicoterapia

Abstract

Interpersonal relationships at work can be complex, with multiple meanings. Sometimes people experience emotionally painful or even humiliating situations at work. Psychological harassment and mobbing are expressions used to refer to situations in which emotional violence is deliberately and repeatedly committed against a person in a professional environment. Given the importance of work to people, difficulties experienced in work context may have important subjective repercussions . There are people who seek psychotherapy for experiencing disorders caused by situations qualified as mobbing at work. This paper aims to discuss psychotherapy in such cases, focusing on the clinical handling that should take into account combinations of aspects of the social context of work, which are eventually violent and unfair, and the subjective aspects of the psychic constitution of each individual. Based on authors like Ferenczi, emphasis is given to the importance of recognizing the traumatogenic potential eventually presented by some situations in which the individual is involved. On the other hand, there is also discussion on the risks that psychotherapy runs when the psychotherapist's understanding is supported on social criticism, thus compromising the specificity of clinical listening.