This study deals with social suffering in a contemporary perspective. Suffering is not a new theme, however, contemporary socio-economic transformations arise new forms of life and work that could be causing strong situations of precariousness. Social suffering is a suffering that installs/hides in areas of insecurity, social areas of fragility, and its action implies loss or possibility of loss of social objects like health, work, desires, dreams, social bonds, that is, the whole of life composed of the concrete and the subjective that allows living
Suffering; Social suffering; Self-exclusion
