Abstract
The article presents the results of a research which focuses on the analysis of medico-psychiatric leave, following a diagnosis of anxiety and / or depression, among health professionals (nurses and social workers), civil servants of public hospitals. The theoretical approach is psychosociology, a discipline which articulates subjective experiences and social relationships. The method of “professional life stories” allows an analysis of the stories and the advent of psychiatric leave; six socio-clinical dimensions have been identified: (1) psychosocial fragility; (2) hierarchy in hospital work; (3) the part of power over work; (4) ethical-political suffering; (5) the regulation of suffering; (6) the return to a new condition of worker. According to the people questioned, before the stoppage, work was an important organizer of life and a space for social integration; after this leave, following sick leave, - the organizing side of life is no longer present. Other dimensions are starting to operate. Sick leave creates a rupture: professionals develop new meanings in their life and their condition as workers, following the way in which they have been treated by health institutions.
Keywords:
congo doctor-psychiatric; hospital work; mental health; psychosociology