Abstract
The purpose of this article is to reflect on the relation between pathogenic factors in work organization and the development of psychosomatic illness in workers, as well as the theoretical and methodological limits on the subject. It presents the case of a worker in the telemarketing sector who, in Labor Court, received a diagnostic hypothesis of depressive episode associated to a somatization disorder with the development of autoimmune disease, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The methodology is a case study, based on the biographical method. Through an interlocution with the specific literature on the subject, it is proposed a reflection about the consequences of the experience of work stress on the workers’ physical and mental health, especially on their repercussion in the immune system. It was concluded that there is a possible relation between the illness presented by the worker in question and the demands of the work performed by her. Also, the need to further studies to deepen the understanding of the passage between a life experience and the emergence of an specific pathology.
Keywords
Psychology; Occupational Health; Psychosomatic