ABSTRACT
This article analyzes how workers experience the effects of the work process in an Alcohol and Drugs Psychosocial Care Center (Capsad). Observations, collective interview and in-depth interviews with workers were carried out. Among the effects, the most notable were wear, sickness, powerlessness of action and exhaustion. It is concluded that these affect the capacity to act, since, in order to collaborate in the production of the meaning of life of the other, in many cases, the employee does not offer nothing for himself, and this leads them to what Merhy calls combustion.
KEYWORDS:
Mental health services; Human resources; Professional exhaustion