Stories of life marked by humiliation, mobbing and illness at work

This article aims to discuss the report of experiences of humiliation and suffering of workers who participated in a therapeutic group with stories of illness at work. The qualitative study set out to develop group meetings based on the proposal of Barros (1997) in the establishment of therapeutic groups as analytical device. The discussion is based on reports of workers who shared the stories of humiliation, embarrassment and feelings of resentment nourished through experiences at work. The analysis of life stories in the paper shows that, for these workers, skills, creativity and dedication to work were being obstructed by disqualifying circumstances, the submission to leadership and lack of autonomy, situations that lead to greater exposure to risk of illness at work. Once with the limited production capacity, the worker becomes, then, a frequent target of situations of humiliation and embarrassment - composing a picture of mobbing at work.

mobbing at work; psychological violence at work; illness at work