2024-01-18 07:30:10
The book. When sociologist and clinician Thomas Périlleux sees new patients arriving for consultation, they often highlight a symptom: “I can’t sleep anymore, I have tightness in my chest, I have a lump in my stomach; or in terms of a work pathology: I’m stressed, I’m burned out, I’m being harassed…” Faced with these workers in professional difficulty, he will then engage in a slow process of listening and questioning, to get to the heart of the issues that affect them.
It is this complex journey that he presents to us in his new work, Raw Work. Professional suffering, consult for what? (Eres). By transcribing his consultations carried out in Liège and Namur, in Belgium, he offers us “to enter the kitchen of a practice little studied until now as such”convinced that “the anger and questions that workers have addressed to me must not remain behind closed doors [où elles ont été exprimées] ».
In doing so, the author offers us a striking panorama of the pain that affects employees today. Above all, they come to him because they are ” in the fog “in a work situation “became illegible ». They don’t “found[ent] no longer have the means, nor [eux] nor in collective bodies, to fight against injustices, to block humiliation, to overcome shame, to rediscover the taste for what[ils font]defend the dignity of [leur] work “.
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The author details the story of Sébastien, a technician in the industry, who, faced with increasingly tough constraints, had to do – and have his team do – shoddy work. The detachment in which he had wrapped himself only lasted a short time: one day his body gave out and Sébastien was put on sick leave.
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Virginie is also on leave. A psychosocial worker, she worked in an institution caring for adolescents suffering from domestic violence. She was the victim of burnout, overcome by a feeling of helplessness in the face of the mistreatment observed, stunned by the inaction and failures of her organization.
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Behind the pain of patients and the psychological links that can be established with their family history, beyond the reflections in session on values and normality in business, Mr. Périlleux highlights – and denounces – the dysfunctions which affect today organizations. “A critique of work remains possible even from individual living bodies which protest through their discomfort against the condition given to them”, he says. A work that he describes “in poor condition. He needs to be taken care of.”assures the author.
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