Trabalho e adoecimento mental: coexistência incontrolável na sociedade capitalista

Abstract

This course conclusion work, entitled “Work and mental illness: uncontrollable coexistence in capitalist society”, proposes to understand the problem of mental illness, marked by the conditions and relations of labor exploitation in the development of the processes of reproduction of the capital system in society. said company. The research carried out was bibliographic and documentary in nature, based on the theoretical-methodological foundations of the Marxist tradition. Among the authors studied are José Paulo Netto, Sérgio Lessa, Leguillante, Ivo Tonet, Ricardo Antunes, Friedrich Engels, Seligmann-Silva and Dejours, who contributed to understanding the complex relationships between the capitalist system, working conditions and impacts on physical and mental health of workers. The role of the State, through public policy and mental health care services, in contemporary times, was also analyzed, albeit generally, in order to understand its intervention to prevent illnesses in the workplace. The research found that the dynamics of capitalist reproduction continues, to this day, producing processes of physical and mental illness. However, the problem is worsening in the face of the severe capital crisis, the precariousness caused by the hardships of transformations in the world of work, the accelerated application of information technologies in work processes and the insufficiency of State intervention in this problem. In this sense, despite the limits of the State's function and the advance of neoliberalism, the importance of strengthening social struggles is understood in order to guarantee massive investment in public policies that protect and promote the social right to health, well-being, physical and mental health of workers.