The relationship family x mental ill, much more present in the psychiatric reform, constitutes a possibility to create new ways of understanding how the family percieves the relationship work x mental ill. It is considered as a fundamental element in this research, the speech of the components of the family, due to their experience. In relationship mental ill x work, the family describes several difficulties, where the idleness is present, revealing the inhability of his component for work, or apointting him a different occupation, adapted to his condition of sick, without percieving the possible depression felt as a consequence of his pathology.
work; mental ill; family