Abstract

PIETRANI, Elina Eunice M.. Mental health at work: an invitation to dialogue. Rev. abordagem gestalt. [online]. 2010, vol.16, n.1, pp. 91-94. ISSN 1809-6867.

The purpose of this article is to reflect on aspects that guide the work world today, more specifically on the high competitiveness between enterprises, affecting the internal environment of the organization, causing disturbances in behavior and mental health workers. These disorders that can range from a simple lack of motivation to depressive disorders, which affect the various spheres of their existence. By prioritizing technology and relationships geared solely to the achievement of performance goals, always unattainable, the companies put aside the worker, while human being. It is necessary to rethink these issues in light of the dialogical relationship and the alternation of the relationship I-Thou and I-it, championed by Martin Buber, in order to promote a more harmonious coexistence and balanced in that context.

Keywords : Competitiveness; Organizational environment; Dialogical relationship.

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