Abstract

SOUZA, Josiane Calixto  and  RUMIN, Cassiano Ricardo. The service of mental health care to workers of prisions. TransForm. Psicol. (Online) [online]. 2010, vol.3, n.1, pp. 00-00. ISSN 2176-106X.

This research aims to discuss the establishment of a mental health care model for prison system workers. Furthermore, a mental health care strategy is proposed that is characterized by the participation of elements external to the prison institution, organizing short-orientation psychotherapy and welcoming mental health emergencies. Action-research was used to perform the study, permitting the characterization of institutional relations. The results indicated the use of rupture, repression and denial as the preponderant defensive mechanisms of the work group. Also, the experience of mental suffering was highlighted, deriving from the impossibility of finding symbolic resonance in professional practice due to the elimination of the founding function. Welcoming mental suffering permitted the discussion of institutional deadlocks and the distinction between the singularity of workers' suffering and the equipping of defenses in the relation with work.

Keywords : Occupational Health; Mental Health; Prisons.

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