Journal articles: 'Suffering at work'

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Flick, Sabine. "Treating social suffering? Work-related suffering and its psychotherapeutic re/interpretation." Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory 17, no. 2 (May 3, 2016): 149–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1600910x.2016.1208619.

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Moltaji, Golbon. "POST GRADUATE WORK PERMIT AND SOCIAL SUFFERING." Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal 5, no. 2 (October 1, 2020): 345–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.18432/ari29445.

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This study is an art-based autoethnography that examines the author’s first-hand experience of immigration-related adversities in four drawings created during transitioning to permanent residency in Canada via the Post Graduate Work Permit Program. The article takes a different route from the studies which acknowledge immigrants’ experiences of social suffering yet, explore the possibilities of eventual integration through adaptation and acculturation for immigrants. This article argues that marking suffering as an organic part of integration normalizes suffering and, even can be perceived as an attempt to eliminate the presence of suffering from the discourse. More importantly, this article emphasizes that the social suffering of immigrants cannot be comprehended separately from the entirety of a society that undoubtedly plays a part in inducing their suffering. Artistic content includes the researcher’s drawings made during her time under PGWPP that express her relation to the social landscape in Canada as an international post-graduate transitioning to permanent residency.

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Camargo, Carmen Aparecida Cardoso Maia, Marcio Antonio Ferreira Camargo, Thaís Alves Rodrigues, Thuane Celly Silva, and Maria Ambrosina Cardoso Maia. "Stress and Suffering at Work: Possible Causes." OALib 06, no. 04 (2019): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1105358.

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Souza, Marilei De Melo Tavares, Joanir Pereira Passos, and Claudia Mara de Melo Tavares. "Suffering and precariousness at work in nursing." Revista de Pesquisa: Cuidado é Fundamental Online 7, no. 1 (January 1, 2015): 2072. http://dx.doi.org/10.9789/2175-5361.2015.v7i1.2072-2082.

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Hourani, A. Al. "Charity work: Easing the suffering of refugees." British Dental Journal 216, no. 1 (January 2014): 2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2013.1241.

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Allard-Poesi, Florence, and Sandrine Hollet-Haudebert. "The sound of silence: Measuring suffering at work." Human Relations 70, no. 12 (June 5, 2017): 1442–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0018726717703449.

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What realities do questionnaires and surveys, designed to measure stress and suffering at work, bring to light? What realities do they conceal? In this research, we consider self-assessment scales and questionnaires as techniques of visibility that contribute to the construction of knowledge on the ‘suffering subject’ at work. We conducted a qualitative analysis of the questionnaire and survey report conducted by the consulting firm Technologia for France Telecom Orange, after a spate of suicides in 2008–2009. The results show that: (1) the questionnaire used to measure suffering at work views the subject as someone reflective yet rather passive, and their suffering as resulting from an unbalanced relationship with the work environment, (2) the report further restricts this understanding of suffering to the administrative position of the individual, (3) as a consequence, the political, strategic, ideological dimensions and the economic power struggles affecting work are silenced. Relying on Foucault’s approach to knowledge ( savoir), we interpret this narrow concept of the subject and their surroundings as resulting from an assemblage between scientific discourses and visibility techniques; a compromise that conceals debates on the strategic orientation of the firm.

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Gaspard, Jean-Luc, John Schostak, and Jill Schostak. "Suffering and the Work of Emancipation through Education." Power and Education 4, no. 3 (January 2012): 289–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/power.2012.4.3.289.

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Martins, Júlia Trevisan, and Maria Lúcia do Carmo Cruz Robazzi. "Nurses' work in intensive care units: feelings of suffering." Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem 17, no. 1 (February 2009): 52–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0104-11692009000100009.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the feelings of suffering that Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nurses experience, and the strategies they use to face these feelings. It is a descriptive study using a qualitative approach and based on content analysis. The study used previous studies on Work Psychodynamics as complementary groundwork. Data collection occurred by means of semi-structured interviews, which were transcribed, categorized, and subcategorized. Results showed that suffering is related to: taking care of a young patient in critical condition, taking problems home, the patient's family, the team's work, and technology at work. As for the defense strategies used, emphasis is given to the search for strength in religion, promoting inter-relationships among team members, engaging in physical activity, and withdrawing from the patient.

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Gong, Yidong. "Non-suffering Work: China's Medical Interventions in South Sudan." China Quarterly 250 (June 2022): 464–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741022000534.

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AbstractThis paper explores China's mode of medical intervention in South Sudan and compares it with the medical humanitarianism and global health imaginaries and modes of intervention that characterize the activities of the wider international community, especially NGOs and faith-based organizations. In their provision of medical aid to South Sudan, organizations of the international community largely draw on a discourse of suffering and a framework of emergency response to humanitarian crises in post-conflict settings, which often translates into vertical programmes which involve direct governance of the South Sudanese population. In contrast, China's contemporary medical interventions in South Sudan are a mixture of health diplomacy, health infrastructure and development aid, an assemblage which can be understood as a “non-suffering” model of care and a loosely defined apparatus of biopolitics. However, the obvious gap between national goals and the daily experiences of individual Chinese doctors suggests that this will be an uneven process of “becoming.”

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Handayani, Trini. "Legal Protection for Doctors Suffering from Diseases at Work." Interdisciplinary Social Studies 1, no. 4 (January 20, 2022): 451–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.55324/iss.v1i4.94.

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Background: PP 88 of 2019 on Occupational Health lists about Occupational Diseases (PAK) is a disease that occurs as a result of work results and or the environment around the workplace. Occupational Diseases must have a direct relationship with exposure experienced by workers, must be scientifically proven and use evidence methods based on evidence based medicine. Aim: As the title indicates, this research aimed to explore more about legal protection for doctors who are infected during work. Method: This is a qualitative or normative research method. Researchers looked at cases of Occupational Diseases in Hospitals and how they were linked to regulations regarding loss reimbursement. Findings: There are cases of Occupational Diseases in Hospitals that until now there has never been compensation as mandated by PP No. 15 of 2019, there needs to be a mechanism in the enforcement of PAK diagnoses and indemnity mechanisms.

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Jędryka-Góral, Anna, Joanna Bugajska, Elżbieta Łastowiecka, Andrzej Najmiec, Maria Rell-Bakalarska, Irena Bownik, Janina M. Michalak, and Marek Kochmański. "Work Ability in Ageing Workers Suffering From Chronic Diseases." International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics 12, no. 1 (January 2006): 17–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10803548.2006.11076665.

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Mukherjee, Ankhi. "On Antigone’s Suffering." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 8, no. 2 (April 2021): 214–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2021.3.

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Examining the contestation of interpretations around this work, I argue that the proliferation of exegetical material on Sophocles’s Antigone is related to a noncomprehension of the human motives behind her transgressive action. Did she ever love, and is there any suffering in her piety? If she didn’t love (her brother), could she have suffered? I read the play alongside Kamila Shamsie’s postcolonial rewriting of it in Home Fire to elaborate on the relationship between personal loss and collective (and communal) suffering, particularly as it is focalized in the novel by the figure of a young woman who is both a bereaved twin and a vengeful fury.

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Porras Velásquez, Nestor Raúl. "The psychodynamic clinic and the analysis of suffering at work." Journal of Psychology & Clinical Psychiatry 14, no. 1 (January 17, 2023): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.15406/jpcpy.2023.14.00719.

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The main objective of this reflection article is to present some basic ideas about the real, symbolic and imaginary possibilities of a psychodynamic clinic of work as a perspective of analysis of the subjective experience of suffering in contemporary work from the proposal of the French psychoanalyst Christophe Dejours, in order to contribute to the conceptual understanding and practical intervention of subjective suffering in work contexts

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Boldyreva, Elena M. "Citizen poet as a cultural hero in russian and chinese poetry: the theme of folk suffering in the works of Du Fu and N. A. Nekrasov." Yaroslavl Pedagogical Bulletin 5, no. 122 (2021): 226–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.20323/1813-145x-2021-5-122-226-238.

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The article is devoted to one of the aspects of the Russian-Chinese cultural dialogue: a citizen poet as a cultural hero in Russian and Chinese poetry on the example of the theme of folk suffering in the works of N. Nekrasov and Du Fu, analyze historical, autobiographical and philosophical determinants of the poets' appeal to civil and folk subjects, considered how archetypal situations, motives and images are actualized in the work of both poets, determined by their writing reputation, their status in the cultural life of the era – the role of a citizen poet, patriot poet, singer of folk suffering. When comparing the works of poets, many typologically similar motifs significant for their artistic world are revealed that represent the theme of folk suffering: steady personosphere, correlation of a subject of national sufferings to motive of wandering and steady top wasps of great Russians and the Chinese rivers, the emotional sphereof the lyrical hero, motive of wretchedness and poverty of the people, motive of national groan and crying of children, motives of beating by a whip and bones of dead persons, motives of soldiering, military service, a landowner and official arbitrariness, inaction and silence of the power, its deafness to national sufferings. Special attention is paid to a subject of a heavy female share in works of poets, epization of their lyrics containing the developed plots reproducing various sides and options of national sufferings and also the system of poems doubles amazingly connected not only separate motive and figurative musters, but also logic of expansion of a lyrical plot, the principles of the subject organization and almost literally repeating verbal formulas. The article concludes that there are similarities and differences in the artistic representation by the poet-citizen of the topic of folk suffering.

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Tietsort, Cristopher J., Sarah J. Tracy, and Elissa A. Adame. "“You Just Don’t Talk about Certain Topics”: How Concerns to Disclose Suffering to Leaders Constrain Compassion at Work." Sustainability 15, no. 5 (March 5, 2023): 4628. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15054628.

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Employee and organizational sustainability are threatened by widespread stress, burnout, and mental health challenges, among other life events. Compassion at work may create more sustainable organizations by alleviating this suffering, but scholars remain puzzled as to why compassion often fails to unfold within organizations. One potential explanation is that suffering employees feel uncertain in expressing suffering at work. To date, however, relatively little research has examined the perspective of suffering employees and the potential hesitation to express suffering due to organizational norms, power dynamics with leaders, and other influences. This study seeks to expand our understanding of compassion by examining how suffering employees make sense of compassionate interactions with leaders, and the concerns they have disclosing and discussing suffering at work. Utilizing qualitative, semi-structured interviews, we found that suffering employees have four driving concerns, which constrain the discussion of suffering at work: (1) professionalism and the appropriateness of suffering, (2) the validity of one’s suffering, (3) the collective impact of a compassionate response, and (4) image management. These concerns, while at times isolated, were often layered for employees in ways that compounded the challenge of disclosing suffering and openly engaging with leaders across the compassion process. We analyze these driving concerns, linking them to prior research and illustrating how these concerns limit employees ability to receive compassion and, in some cases, exacerbate their suffering. Practical implications are discussed as well, outlining ways that organizations can shape compassion processes toward greater employee sustainability.

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Eddleston, Kimberly A., Philipp Sieger, and Fabian Bernhard. "From suffering firm to suffering family? How perceived firm performance relates to managers' work-to-family conflict." Journal of Business Research 104 (November 2019): 307–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.07.024.

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Peggs, Kay, and Barry Smart. "Nonhuman Animal Suffering." Society & Animals 25, no. 2 (May 18, 2017): 181–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685306-12341445.

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Each year millions of nonhuman animals are exposed to suffering in universities as they are routinely (ab)used in teaching and research in the natural sciences. Drawing on the work of Giroux and Derrida, we make the case for a critical pedagogy of nonhuman animal suffering. We discuss critical pedagogy as an underrepresented form of teaching in universities, consider suffering as a concept, and explore the pedagogy of suffering. The discussion focuses on the use of nonhuman animal subjects in universities, in particular in teaching, scientific research, and associated experiments. We conclude that a critical pedagogy of nonhuman animal suffering has the capacity to contribute to the establishment of a practical animal ethics conducive to the constitution of a radically different form of social life able to promote a more just and non-speciesist future in which nonhuman animals are not used as resources in scientific research in universities.

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Prestes, Francine Cassol, Carmem Lúcia Colomé Beck, Tânia Solange Bosi de Souza Magnago, and Rosângela Marion da Silva. "Pleasure-suffering indicators of nursing work in a hemodialysis nursing service." Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP 49, no. 3 (June 2015): 465–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0080-623420150000300015.

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OBJECTIVE To measure the pleasure and suffering indicators at work and relate them to the socio-demographic and employment characteristics of the nursing staff in a hemodialysis center in southern Brazil. METHOD Quantitative research, with 46 workers. We used a self-completed form with demographic and labor data and the Pleasure and Suffering Indicators at Work Scale (PSIWS). We conducted a bivariate and correlation descriptive analysis with significance levels of 5% using the Epi-Info® and PredictiveAnalytics Software programs. RESULTS Freedom of Speech was considered critical; other factors were evaluated as satisfactory. The results revealed a possible association between sociodemographic characteristics and work, and pleasure and suffering indicators. There was a correlation between the factors evaluated. CONCLUSION Despite the satisfactory evaluation, suffering is present in the studied context, expressed mainly by a lack of Freedom of Speech, with the need for interventions to prevent injury to the health of workers.

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Grudtseva, Elena. "Strategies for Mastering Suffering in Culture." Logos et Praxis, no. 1 (February 2024): 75–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/lp.jvolsu.2024.1.8.

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The article is devoted to the study of suffering as a component of human subjectivity. The factors that determine the unavoidability of suffering in human life are highlighted. The dynamics of the meanings of the word "suffering" are shown from the original meanings associated with the concepts of "death" and "hard work" to modern meanings grouped around the experience of pain, death, and guilt. At the same time, the essential features of existential suffering are a lack of freedom and destructiveness. The features of the strategy of avoiding suffering as an experienced state are analyzed: at the early stages of historical development; in religious concepts; in Epicurean philosophy; in hedonistic theories. Using the example of the analysis of archaic initiation practices that determined the life cycles of an individual and society, the ambivalent role of the painful trials and sufferings that accompanied them is described: as an indicator of readiness to transition to a new status and as a factor of coercion in an undesirable social role. The tendencies of rethinking suffering in the period of Axial time are shown (the formation of a "suffering person"; voluntary acceptance of suffering; the appearance of a bundle of "suffering and redemption" in the Abrahamic religions). A feature of religious strategies of escape from suffering is the withdrawal of a state without suffering beyond the real world and the promise of existence without suffering after death. The consequences of the reinterpretation of suffering, characteristic of modern society, as an existential experience that adjusts a person to a passive life position and the living of pleasures are considered. The positive and negative aspects of suffering are highlighted, as well as the dual relationship of suffering with meaning: on the one hand, suffering itself assumes the existence of a meaning that must be discovered; on the other hand, the subject himself is called upon to fill the meaning of the suffering situation. The meaning here is what helps to survive the irremediable suffering. Giving a situation of suffering meaning changes the personal attitude of the sufferer, increasing his chances of overcoming the situation and, more importantly, ensuring his moral safety. Personal strategies for understanding suffering are described. The conclusion is made about the ambivalence of the phenomenon of suffering, its dialectical connection with pleasure, its dependence on the spiritual mood, as well as the influence of meaningful suffering on the processes of personal development.

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Velásquez, Nestor Raúl Porras. "Analysis of the subjective experience of suffering in the psychodynamic work clinic." Nusantara Journal of Behavioral and Social Sciences 3, no. 1 (February 8, 2024): 9–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.47679/202445.

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This study aims to investigate and deeply understand the subjective experience of suffering within the psychodynamic context of work, focusing particularly on the psychological and emotional aspects involved. Through qualitative analysis, this research delves into how individuals interpret and experience suffering in the workplace, considering the psychodynamic variables that influence their perceptions and reactions. This provides valuable insights into the internal dynamics of work-related suffering, as well as how these factors impact the psychological well-being of employees. Furthermore, the study explores how these findings can be applied in work intervention practices. By understanding the nuances of the subjective experience of suffering, practitioners can develop more effective and empathetic strategies to support employees facing psychological challenges in the workplace. This opens possibilities for interventions that are more tailored and responsive to the unique needs of individuals

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Nascimento, Débora Dupas Gonçalves do, and Maria Amélia de Campos Oliveira. "Analysis of suffering at work in Family Health Support Centers." Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP 50, no. 5 (October 2016): 846–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0080-623420160000600019.

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Abstract OBJECTIVE Analyzing the work process in the Family Health Support Center. METHOD An exploratory, descriptive case study using a qualitative approach. Focus groups were conducted with 20 workers of a Family Health Support Center, and the empirical material was subjected to content analysis technique and analyzed in light of Work Psychodynamics. RESULTS The category of suffering is presented herein as arising from the dialectical contradiction between actual work and prescribed work, from resistance to the Family Health Support Center's proposal and a lack of understanding of their role; due to an immediatist and curative culture of the users and the Family Health Strategy; of the profile, overload and identification with work. CONCLUSION The dialectical contradiction between expectations from Family Health Strategy teams and the work in the Family Health Support Center compromises its execution and creates suffering for workers.

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Maissiat, Greisse da Silveira, Liana Lautert, Daiane Dal Pai, and Juliana Petri Tavares. "Work context, job satisfaction and suffering in primary health care." Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem 36, no. 2 (June 2015): 42–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1983-1447.2015.02.51128.

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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the work context, job satisfaction and suffering from the perspective of workers in primary health care. METHOD: This cross-sectional study was conducted with 242 employees of a municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, from May to July 2012. The adopted instruments were the Work Context Assessment Scale (EACT) and the Job Satisfaction and Suffering Indicators Scale (EIPST). Research also included descriptive and inferential statistical analysis. RESULTS: Organization (91.3%) and work conditions (64%) received the worst scores in terms of context. The indicators of job satisfaction were related to professional achievement (55.8%), freedom of expression (62.4%) and recognition (59.9%). However, 64.5% presented professional exhaustion, which had an inverse association with age and years in the institution (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: The workers evaluated their work context as inappropriate and complained of exhaustion, although they claimed their work affords some satisfaction.

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Sloan, Tod. "Global Work-Related Suffering as a Priority for Vocational Psychology." Counseling Psychologist 33, no. 2 (March 2005): 207–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011000004272721.

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Building on the recommendations in the article “An Emancipatory Communitarian Approach to Vocational Development Theory, Research, and Practice” by David Blustein, Ellen McWhirter, and Justin Perry, a critical and global perspective on the challenge facing vocational psychologists who adopt an emancipatory communitarian approach is developed. Attention to the most pressing needs of the global unemployed and working poor will be critical. Most psychologists already possess the skill sets that are required, but the roles will change from work that primarily sustains current socioeconomic systems to work that challenges the globalization of corporate consumerism through an insistence on participatory democracy in the work settings and the defense of the human rights of workers.

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Wright, Lorraine M. "Suffering and Spirituality: The Soul of Clinical Work with Families." Journal of Family Nursing 3, no. 1 (February 1997): 3–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107484079700300101.

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Gismera, Eduardo, José Luis Fernández, Jesús Labrador, and Laura Gismera. "Suffering at Work: A Challenge for Corporate Sustainability in the Spanish Context." Sustainability 11, no. 15 (August 1, 2019): 4152. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11154152.

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that world leaders committed to fulfilling by the year 2030 include the protection of labor rights and the promotion of a safe and decent workplace under acceptable health and well-being conditions. The private sector has a critical role in achieving these goals. There are many very good practices in modern organizations to prevent and avoid pain and suffering among workers, but there is another challenge that has guided this research: What happens when the suffering has already occurred? The objective of this research is to explore how the private sector organizations in Spain deal with their workers’ suffering. This study used discourse analysis, extracted from eight in-depth interviews with human resources managers, as well as a discussion group of twelve leaders from various national and multinational companies. It has been found that there is a clear awareness of the existence of suffering in their organizations, but there is also a general reluctance to confront it and address it.

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Kolhs, Marta, Agnes Olschowsky, and Lucimare Ferraz. "Suffering and defense in work in a mental health care service." Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem 72, no. 4 (August 2019): 903–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0140.

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ABSTRACT Objective: to know the suffering and the strategies of defense of CAPS AD III workers, from the perspective of the Work Theater proposed by Dejours. Method: a descriptive qualitative research, of the case study type, with CAPS AD III workers, using as theoretical framework the Psychodynamics of Work. Results: CAPS AD III professionals identify that the suffering in the work arises from the frustration between the real and the prescribed one; by the hegemony of practices guided by the biomedical model; stigmatization and prejudice with users; and the limitations of the Health Care Network (Rede de Atenção à Saúde). As an individual defense strategy, the rationalization was defined, and as a collective strategy, the protection strategy. Final considerations: worker uses strategies of defenses to face suffering and give a new meaning to it, characterizing themselves as ways of apprehending, understanding and giving meaning and new looks to their work.

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Mariano, Pâmela Patricia, Vanessa Denardi Antoniassi Baldissera, Júlia Trevisan Martins, and Lígia Carreira. "Nursing work organization in long-stay institutions for the elderly: relationship to pleasure and suffering at work." Texto & Contexto - Enfermagem 24, no. 3 (August 25, 2015): 756–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0104-070720150-1150014.

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The aim of this study was to understand the nursing work organization in long-stay institutions for the elderly and its relationship to pleasure and suffering at work. Data were collected through observation and interviews between April and September 2013 and submitted to content analysis, in light of Dejours' psychodynamics of work theory. Professionals experience suffering as they face physical exertion, a fast-paced work environment and repetitive routines, limited human resources, accumulation of responsibilities and lack of medical service in the institution. Pleasure is experienced through the division of labor among workers, staff's good working relationships, freedom to change the work organization and the possibility of creating a bond with the elderly. The study provides subsidies for planning adequacies in the nursing work organization at these institutions, which will improve the workers' relationship to their work activities.

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Rattner, Maxxine. "Navigating the Intangible: Working With Nonphysical Suffering on the Front Lines of Palliative Care." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 81, no. 4 (September 5, 2018): 670–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0030222818797171.

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While relieving suffering is palliative care’s primary aim, how palliative care providers navigate patients’ nonphysical suffering in their day-to-day work and the impact of working with nonphysical suffering on the clinician have been understudied. This exploratory study aims to begin to fill this gap in the literature. Results revealed that palliative care clinicians face several challenges in their efforts to navigate patients’ nonphysical suffering in their day-to-day work, including (a) the intangible nature of nonphysical suffering, (b) systemic barriers (e.g., lack of time and adequate resources), (c) clinician helplessness or suffering, and (d) a lack of education, training, and support for clinicians specific to their work with patients’ nonphysical suffering. Study outcomes have the potential to improve frontline clinical care with patients and support and education for clinicians.

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Betsy Varghese and P.V. Giri. "Ergonomics in work situations of Ayurvedic therapists working in Vaidyaratnam Ayurveda College, Ollur, Trissur." Journal of Ayurveda and Integrated Medical Sciences 9, no. 2 (April 9, 2024): 39–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.21760/jaims.9.2.7.

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Introduction: Ergonomics is defined as the process of designing or arranging workplaces, products and systems so that they fit the people who use them. Physical, organizational and cognitive are the three types of ergonomics. Aims and Objectives: To assess the prevalence of Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSD) in Ayurvedic therapists working in, Vaidyaratnam Ayurveda College, Ollur, Trissur. Materials and Methods: A Descriptive cross sectional study was done. 17 therapists in VACH Ollur were surveyed consecutively regarding symptoms of Musculoskeletal disorders mainly LBA, neck pain, shoulder pain, knee pain and heel pain. Data were collected by using questionnaires and were analysed using appropriate statistical methods. Results: Out of 17 therapists, 52.9 % were females. Highest frequency of MSD was seen in the age group of 46-55 years. 80 % of the therapists were working more than 20 years. 64.5 % were suffering from LBA, 29.4% were suffering from neck pain, 23.8% were suffering from shoulder pain, 41.2% were suffering from knee pain and 17.6 % were suffering from heel pain. Discussion: Present study shows that MSD are common among therapists. Improper posture for different procedure can be the reason. Adhering to the principles of physical and cognitive ergonomics can prevent risk factors of developing MSD.

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Gobbi, Cláudia, and Solânia Durman. "Psychic distress at the workplace: nurses’ perceptions." Tempus Actas de Saúde Coletiva 4, no. 1 (April 6, 2011): 199. http://dx.doi.org/10.18569/tempus.v4i1.953.

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This is an excerpt from a field research, exploratory, of qualitative and quantitative approach, which for this moment, we only dip into the qualitative part. This research was done at University hospital in the west of Paraná, located in Cascavel City, having as people researched eight nurses from several shifts and works sectors. The study aimed to verify if on their daily work routine the nurse develops some kind of psychological suffering, and at the same time if they perceive the existence of this. The data were collected during the months of April and May of 2007 and analyzed under the perspective of the qualitative research. The results showed that 100 percent of workers developed psychological suffering, in different degrees, at some moment of their daily work. However lots of them didn’t perceive that or then created defense mechanisms, trying to reduce the suffering. We believe that the implementation of strategies to improve the conditions and work environment, would provide subsides to obtain life quality at work, this reducing the inherent suffering in these nurses’ lives.

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Sena, Bruna Aderita Cortez de, and Ana Izabel Oliveira Lima. "MENTAL SUFFERING AND HIGHER EDUCATION TEACHING IN NURSING." Psicologia e Saúde em Debate 7, no. 1 (April 13, 2021): 241–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.22289/2446-922x.v7n1a17.

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The living and health conditions of workers were directly impacted by the restructuring of the world of work. The increase in demands and the accumulation of work has led teachers to suffer, as well as other workers. For this reason, the article discusses the psychodynamics of work and studies on the field of education that involve teaching mental suffering and its relationship with nursing, relating it to teachers' work and health conditions. The objective is to present an expanded analysis of the review findings in the context of national literature on the subject, anchored in the theory of psychodynamics at work and theoretical reflections inserted in the dialogue. It is a theoretical study of systematic review with a qualitative approach, about mental suffering in higher education teachers in nursing to obtain knowledge produced in the area. Suffering is approached in different ways in the literature and can have a positive or negative meaning, with work as a structuring element of negative or positive effects on the worker's mental functioning and mental life. It was identified, therefore, that the production of teaching work in nursing can make this professional activity sick and requires defensive strategies designed to search for adequate solutions, aiming at the mental health of these workers.

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Santana dos Santos, Ana Dulce, Silvio Arcanjo Matos Filho, Ricardo Souza Evangelista Sant'Ana, Norma Valéria Dantas de Oliveira Souza, Zulmerinda Meira Oliveira, and Octávio Muniz da Costa Vargens. "Pleasure and suffering in the work of palliative oncology nurses: A reflective discursive presentation." International Health Trends and Perspectives 2, no. 2 (August 1, 2022): 129–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.32920/ihtp.v2i2.1547.

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In palliative care, nursing work is characterized by the concept of suffering as nurses cope with not only the death of patients, but also challenges with interacting with families. This suffering however, if offset by the concept of pleasure, as patients find meaning in illness, pain, and in the acceptance of death as a natural process, which generates pleasure. This reflective discursive presentation is based on the theoretical framework of Dejours’ psychodynamics of work and highlights the area of palliative oncology nursing as a source of suffering and pleasure. The daily life of palliative oncology nurses, subjectivity at work, and constant interactions between psychic, social, individual, and collective factors are discussed. In their clinical practice, palliative oncology nurses break with the prescribed way of engaging in care while building on various meanings of work that transforms and is also transformed. Considerations related to the need for teaching and research activities to examine pleasure and suffering in palliative oncology nursing is presented.

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Bouderbala, Amel. "Suffering at Work or Neo-Taylorism that Leads to Resignation: Case of Two Professions in Tunisia." Current Research in Psychology and Behavioral Science (CRPBS) 4, no. 6 (September 27, 2023): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.54026/crpbs/10105.

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The objective of this article is to understand the path of suffering at work, in the Tunisian context, through a survey carried out on two professions in the private sector (agents in call centers, cashiers in supermarkets) to put highlight the patterns of this suffering through the singularities of the experience of individuals, while seeking the constants that cross these professions. This is an exploratory qualitative research which is situated in the interpretivist paradigm and where we interviewed 10 respondents by profession (20 semi-structured interviews). The results of the content analysis show an almost similar evolution of suffering for the two professions with a similar reaction to suffering: The resignation of call center agents and cashiers due to neo-Taylorism.

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Mead, Lucy J. "When Nurses Mourn: Layered Suffering." International Journal of Human Caring 11, no. 2 (March 2007): 47–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.20467/1091-5710.11.2.47.

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Human suffering as a phenomenon for inquiry invokes a sense of quiet anguish. In nursing, studies of suffering are most often focused on the experiences of persons with life-threatening or terminal illnesses and are characterized by efforts to describe qualities, types, and dimensions of suffering. While these studies contribute a wellspring of understanding, suffering becomes infinitely more complex when the effects of suffering on the patient’s circle of relationships are considered. The purpose of this paper is to illuminate the suffering of nurses when they experience the loss of a loved one and continue to work with suffering from personal bereavement intermingled with the suffering they share with patients. This unrelieved, invisible grieving is called layered suffering.

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Noiseux, Joshua. "Work That Causes Harm: Violent Labour and the Ecology of Suffering." Canadian Review of American Studies 50, no. 2 (July 2020): 276–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cras.2018.023.

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Giffen, Allison. "Suffering Girls: The Work of Anti-Catholicism in Martha Finley’s Novels." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 41, no. 1 (2016): 3–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/chq.2016.0014.

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E. J. Khantzian. "Thinking About Our Work: I Think I Am Suffering With PIISD." Group 37, no. 1 (2013): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.13186/group.37.1.0079.

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Svensson, Christian Franklin, and Vibeke Bak Nielsen. "Community Work as Opposition." Journal of Comparative Social Work 15, no. 2 (December 11, 2020): 33–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v15i2.304.

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A number of tensions pertaining to social problems and human suffering become apparent when analysing community work in a Danish welfare setting. As a source for critical reflection, we discern some of these challenges, but also potentials, which relate not only to a Danish context, but to challenges in any highly institutionalized welfare system. Three community work social enterprises serve to exemplify the objectives of addressing social problems by fostering participation and empowerment. To enhance and include the voice of service users, the programmes attempt to cultivate human resources as opposed to perceived formalism and a subsequent diminishment of the potentials of community inclusion. The formalistic governmental agendas are perceived to be unable to appreciate the diversity of service users’ individual needs and social challenges, which produces conflicting prospects. Such a dichotomy between formalistic welfare practices and the ideals represented in the three enterprises offers a podium for users, professionals, policymakers and researchers to consider alternative expressions of community work, and how these can address social problems. We maintain that rapidly changing welfare models require an increased sensitivity to human suffering as a position embedded in the habitus and sociological imagination of community work. It is a source for reflection on the role of welfare arenas perceived as spaces in which service users ideally, based on their own social situation, can improve their social circumstances. It is an invitation to reflect on the potentials of community work in a diversity of cultures and practices.

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Jacobsen, Michael Hviid. "Suffering in the Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman." Qualitative Studies 6, no. 1 (January 21, 2021): 68–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/qs.v6i1.124417.

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The topic of human suffering loomed large throughout the writings of Zygmunt Bauman. If anything, his work can be characterized as a ‘sociology of suffering’. From the early writings until his very last, suffering constituted a key concern in Bauman’s description of the transformation of society from a solid-modern to a liquid-modern outlook. In his work, there are certain shifts in who and what he regards as the embodiments or expressions of suffering, and there is thus a keen eye on the changing landscape of suffering, its causes and consequences, from past to present. But there is nevertheless always a continuous and vehement defence for those living at the outskirts or at the bottom of society. The article will also explore what Bauman suggest should be done about the presence of suffering, and the article will briefly discuss the viability of his ideas on a morality of proximity as a way to alleviate suffering.

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Popov, N. M. "Muscular atrophies in craniocerebral suffering." Neurology Bulletin VII, no. 1 (November 25, 2020): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/nb49890.

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On February 5th of this year, a patient came to our outpatient clinic with a complaint of severe headaches; these pains, which had lasted for about 2 months, at first appeared in him exclusively at night, and then did not stop during the day, although during the night they always took on a more cruel character. In the last time, an increase in headache was very often accompanied by vomiting and a feeling of goose bumps in the right extremities, in which the patient also began to suppress a clear decrease in strength, especially in the evening (during the day he was still in a state of some kind of work).

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Orejuela, Johnny, Sigmar Malvezzi, Andrés Vásquez, and Ana Magnolia Mendes. "The Clinics of work: An Alternative Vision of Occupational Health." International Journal of Psychological Research 13, no. 2 (August 20, 2020): 109–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.21500/20112084.4737.

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This theoretical paper depicts the clinics of work as a subdisciplinary and interdisciplinary field of the social psychology of work and organizations, interested in analyzing and intervening from a critical-clinical perspective in the subjectivity-work-context relationship, in the context of discomfort, suffering, and pleasure, and thus, in the mental health within this field. Consequently, it separates from traditional occupational health, which ignores subjective singularities. The subdiscipline of clinics of work develops the determinants of pleasure, discomfort, and suffering at work, standing out in the process as a possible alternative of occupational health, based on research practice and intervention from a critical perspective.

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McDonald, Ronan. "Mock Mockers: Cynicism, Suffering, Irish Modernism." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 8, no. 2 (April 2021): 177–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2020.40.

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Cynicism styles itself as the answer to the mental suffering produced by disillusionment, disappointment, and despair. It seeks to avoid them by exposing to ridicule naive idealism or treacherous hope. Modern cynics avoid the vulnerability produced by high ideals, just as their ancient counterparts eschewed dependence on all but the most essential of material needs. The philosophical tradition of the Cynics begins with the Ancients, including Diogenes and Lucian, but has found contemporary valence in the work of cultural theorists such as Peter Sloterdijk. This article uses theories of cynicism to analyze postcolonial disappointment in Irish modernism. It argues that in the “ambi-colonial” conditions of early-twentieth-century Ireland, the metropolitan surety of and suaveness of a cynical attitude is available but precarious. We therefore find a recursive cynicism that often turns upon itself, finding the self-distancing and critical sure-footedness of modern, urbane cynicism a stance that itself should be treated with cynical scepticism. The essay detects this recursive cynicism in a number of literary works of post-independence Ireland, concluding with an extended consideration of W. B. Yeats’s great poem of civilizational precarity, “Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen.”

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Pihlström, Sami. "Meaningful and meaningless suffering." Human Affairs 29, no. 4 (October 25, 2019): 415–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2019-0036.

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Abstract The problem of suffering crucially focuses on meaninglessness. Meaningful suffering—suffering having some “point” or function—is not as problematic as absurd suffering that cannot be rendered purposeful. This issue is more specific than the problem of the “meaning of life” (or “meaning in life”). Human lives are often full of suffering experienced as serving no purpose whatsoever – indeed, suffering that may threaten to make life itself meaningless. Some philosophers—e.g., D.Z. Phillips and John Cottingham—have persuasively argued that the standard analytic methods of philosophy of religion in particular ought to be enriched by literary reading and interpretation, especially when dealing with issues such as this. The problem of evil and suffering can also be explored from a perspective entangling literary and philosophical approaches (Kivistö & Pihlström, 2016). This double methodology is in this paper applied to the problem of evil and suffering by considering an example drawn from Holocaust literature: Primo Levi’s work is analyzed as developing an essentially ethical argument, with a philosophical-cum-literary structure, against theodicies seeking to render suffering meaningful. By means of such a case study, I hope to shed light on the problem of meaningless suffering, especially regarding the moral critique of “theodicist” attempts to interpret all suffering as meaningful.

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Drahos, Kristen. "Wisdom and suffering in Teresa of Cartagena." Scottish Journal of Theology 76, no. 2 (April 20, 2023): 126–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930622000977.

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AbstractI argue that Teresa of Cartagena's Grove of the Infirm offers a recalibration of the wisdom emergent from suffering by moving from a cruciform spirituality to an intellectual ‘scientia,’ which benefits specific marginalized groups (prolonged sufferers) by establishing new paths of agency (through distinctive cooperative virtues) for those who suffer. I show that by disengaging suffering's spiritual meaning from the Franciscan focus on the cross, Teresa is able to amplify the relationship of virtue to wisdom while maintaining the validity of the painful experience endured. I argue that Teresa's focus on wisdom challenges the diminution of sufferers' experiences and elevates their spiritual wisdom as applicable to the church writ large. Teresa's work opens new spaces of agency for the most sidelined and secures the lasting significance of the wisdom of suffering.

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Brekalo-Lazarevic, Sanja, Nurka Pranjic, Senada Selmanovic, and Mensur Grbovic. "Impact of work place stresses on work ability index in patients with depressive disorders." Medical review 64, no. 11-12 (2011): 545–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/mpns1112545b.

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Introduction. Depression seriously affects one?s ability to perform work tasks and function at work. We studied the impact of both the individual and work factors on work ability index in patients suffering from depression. Material and methods. The prospective study, which was conducted by using questionnaires, included 210 patients with depression, who had been on sick leave from 60 to 360 days. The individual factors were evaluated by the standardized abridged form of Occupational Stress Questionnaire, while the work place factors in relation to work ability were evaluated by the work ability index. Results. Poor work ability was observed in 151 (71%) of subjects suffering from depression. All workplace stresses, lack of support by colleagues and supervisors, ergonomically not adjusted work and huge work load are statistically associated with poor work ability index (P=0.001). More than 95% of variables of the evaluated work ability index are the result of varying in the group of stresses at work place (R2=0.95). Perception of bad health condition (Rsq=0.412, P=0.001), low level of life satisfaction (Rsq=0.309, P=0,001), low level of motivation and work knowledge (Rsq=0.309, P=0.001) are predictors for poor work ability. The work ability cannot be related with age and sex. Conclusion. The key activities for maintaining the work ability at the times when epidemic of depression emerges, as it is nowadays, are timely carrying out the psycho-treatments, mental and professional rehabilitation, occupational therapy and adapted work place.

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Anonymous. "I Suffer Alone while Suffering with Many." Contexts 8, no. 2 (May 2009): 78–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ctx.2009.8.2.78.

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We encourage instructors to nominate first-person essays like this one by sending their students' work of no more than 1,200 words, contact information, and a note about the class and assignment to editor@contexts.org .

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Mänttäri-van der Kuip, Maija. "Conceptualising Work-Related Moral Suffering—Exploring and Refining the Concept of Moral Distress in the Context of Social Work." British Journal of Social Work 50, no. 3 (April 3, 2019): 741–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz034.

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Abstract In the nursing literature, work-related suffering due to restricted moral agency is commonly considered under the concept of moral distress. This concept has resonated strongly amongst nursing scholars since the 1980s and has recently gained ground amongst social work scholars as well. However, the research on moral distress suffers from inadequate conceptual clarity; this has led to multiple and disparate ways of empirically studying the phenomenon. This article examines the conceptualisations of moral distress applied in the nursing and social work literature and identifies and discusses the challenges and potential problems related to them. The article sheds light on the complex, dynamic and relative nature of the phenomenon, which has not been sufficiently acknowledged in the existing empirical literature. Despite its complexities and defects, as highlighted in this article, the concept of moral distress can serve as an important tool for understanding and analysing experiences of moral suffering in front line social work. However, defining this experience in all its complexity and devising a valid instrument to measure it remain a major challenge.

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Nelson, Julie A., and Paula England. "Feminist Philosophies of Love and Work." Hypatia 17, no. 2 (2002): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2002.tb00762.x.

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Can work be done for pay, and still be loving? While many feminists believe that marketization inevitably leads to a degradation of social connections, we suggest that markets are themselves forms of social organization, and that even relationships of unequal power can sometimes include mutual respect. We call for increased attention to specific causes of suffering, such as greed, poverty, and subordination. We conclude with a summary of contributions to this Special Issue.

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Kane, Michael N., Debra Lacey, and Diane Green. "Correlates of perceptions of elder’s suffering from depression." Advances in Social Work 7, no. 1 (April 30, 2006): 44–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.18060/119.

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The study investigated social work students’ perceptions of elders as depressed and suffering (N= 156). Four predictor variables were identified from a standard regression analysis that account for 32% of the model’s adjusted variance: (a) perceptions of elders as vulnerable, (b) perceptions about elders as oppressed. Overall, respondents perceived elders as being depressed, vulnerable, members of an oppressed group, abusive of substances, and only moderately resilient in response to mental health services. Implications are discussed for social work education.

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Segal, Naomi. "‘A Petty Form of Suffering’." Body & Society 24, no. 1-2 (March 9, 2018): 88–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1357034x18760176.

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‘Itching is a petty form of suffering,’ wrote André Gide in 1931. Itching may be occasional or obsessive; it positions a person inside a body that exists in familial and social contexts; it can be evoked in debates about righteousness and justice. This article begins with discussion of the work of Didier Anzieu, psychoanalyst author of The Skin-ego: among the nine ‘functions’ of the skin-ego that Anzieu describes, the last is ‘toxicity’, the skin turned against itself in a gesture of self-destruction. In my discussion of three other texts, I connect Gide’s diary entry to his sexuality; Lorette Nobécourt’s novel to the social world; the book of Job to the metaphysics of virtue; and to these I append two semi-comic moments from Jean-Paul Sartre and Sarah Winman, and discussions of ‘leprosy’ and psoriasis, two versions of feeling (in both senses) that one has a skin.

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