Les pères fondateurs de la psychopathologie du travail en butte à l'énigme du travail

Abstract

The history of the emergence of occupational psychopathology highlights the contributions and the limits of its first formulations by the founders Paul Sivadon, Louis Le Guillant and Claude Veil. These initial questionings, which were inseparable from the reform of the psychiatric institution and implementation of active therapeutic approaches in the aftermath of the war, assigned centrality to the register of subjectivity and conflict and bestowed citizenship to the worker as subject. But the switch from hospital clinical work to «real» work brings out a large number of obstacles that reveal secreted within them what eluded those psychiatrists: the commitment of subjectivity in the very activity of work itself.