Suffering, mental disease and power of action: a case study with public servers of the labor judiciary
mental health, work, work clinics, judiciary.
The objective of this work was to analyze the health-mental illness process of the hearing court hearing secretaries of Paraíba, having as a theoretical-methodological contribution the Clinic of the Activity. It was a descriptive and clinical-interventional study, sequential multimethods, with a qualitative approach, in which I used documentary analysis, observation, conducting semi-structured interviews on professional history and aspects of the activity related to health, and the instructional technique to the double. All ethical precepts were respected. Among the results, I highlight that: (a) the quality of the interpersonal relationships established in the work activity is related to the maintenance of the mental health of the audience secretaries; (b) the excess of assignments, the impossibility of counting on peers and taking breaks during the execution of tasks appear to be linked to frames of anxiety and stress, favoring experiences of suffering and impotence in relation to work; (c) the weakening of collectives and the professional gender may be opening the way for the loss of health of these professionals; on the other hand, (d) some interesting ways of escaping the limitations of the activity are noticeable through the instruments that the participants create or that are used to circumvent them, reinvent themselves, personalize the activity. As a way of protecting the mental health of these workers, I point out the need for greater articulation of the collectives as a resource for coping with difficulties, for institutional interventions that favor interpersonal relationships and cooperation, in addition to arrangements that enable the relay among audience professionals.