O trauma corporal por acidentes de trabalho e suas implicações psíquicas

Abstract

The study of accidents at work is a relatively recent subject, born in the early twentieth century, after the industrial revolution, taking power with the birth of occupational medicine. Since then, it has aroused the interest of researchers in the health sciences, humanities and social sciences, it is possible to study it under different approaches. This research proposes to study the psychological implications of body trauma in victims of accidents at work. Specifically, it seeks to address the concept of psychic trauma in order to provide support for rethinking the clinic with accidents and analyze the reasons that lead some individuals to remain bound to the trauma caused by accidents at work, making it a central element in their lives. This is a project housed in a larger study that discusses the issues of the pathologies of the body in current social context. The work has a theoretical studies about the accident at work, Freud's theory of trauma,the contributions of Paul - Laurent Assoun on the body in psychoanalysis and contemporary psychoanalytic authors. Field research was conducted among adults who have suffered accidents at work, regardless of age and sex and, therefore, we chose a government institution,the National Insurance Institute (INSS). as a field of our research, it being a public institution responsible to assist the employee when he loses the ability to work, whether due to sickness,invalidity, old age, unemployment, or by assisting the families of workers if death. Collect testimonials from individuals who suffered accidents at work, such statements were interpreted in the light of psychoanalytic concepts that underpin clinical practice. Hopefully the results broaden the discussion and knowledge about mental suffering in people traumatized by an accident at work, showing the consequences of these traumas in the body and its psychosocial relationships