Segregation and exclusion were traditionally the ways more trodden by thoses that suffer mental disorder in the model of treatment by asylum, bringing injuries to the life of who is suffering this disease. Nowadays, the ancient conceptions are starting to be re-told through the movement of psychiatric renewal, that resee the ancient paradigm of segregation and present new propositions based upon psychosocial habilitation of the mentally sick subjects. In this context, the objective of the research was to understand the social representations about the work in the sick. The study was founded upon the Theory of Representations and as empyrical field two Centers of Psychosocial Attention(CAPS) of Fortaleza-Ceará. The subjects were seven users and eight professionals of the mentioned CAPS.As considerations we observed that the relations among the world of work and the mental sickness remain silenced, acurring through prejudice and the historically built logic of incapacity.
Mental Health; Work; Social representation