This work aims to shed new light on the relations between Individual Suffering and Collective Suffering (Social Suffering), in the context of actual production systems. There is, in the science, a gap in the collective and pathological individual, in the areas: collective and public health. This study investigated the relation between Social Suffering and Psychic Suffering at contemporary work, in the current theoretical scenery of Mental Health and Work area. And the central text analyzed was Emmanuel Renault (2008)Renault, E. (2008). Souffrances sociales. Paris: La Découverte.. The method of research adopted were an analytic, systematic and critical review of concepts, theories and approaches about social and psychic aspects of the relation between suffering and work. The results confirm that this is a serious and urgent question and indicates that the Social Suffering is a societal ontological phenomenon operating at two simultaneous linked dimensions: collective (social) and individual (intra-psychic). This scientific review is based too deeper theoretical fundaments.
work suffering; social suffering; public health