TEACHER-STUDENT RELATIONSHIP AND THE DRAMA OF TEACHERS PSYCHIATRIZATION

A STUDY BASED ON GOIÂNIA’S DATA

Abstract

As a result of the Project "Medicalization in Goiás: critical investigations in the history and contemporaneity of biopsychosocial practices and discourses", this paper reports a research on the drama  of  teacher’s psychiatrization in the teacher-student relationship in the municipal educational system of Goiania, Brazil. The sickness absenteeism of teachers from elementary education for medical reasons  coded  with  the  F index of the ICD-10 envisages a context of precariousness of work in capitalism,  with  impacts  on  the  social  relationship between teachers and students. We discuss the characteristics pointed out in this interaction that reveal the dialectical complexity of the drama of psychiatric illness and the material conditions of the work experience, performing a qualitative analysis of data collected in sheets, synthesized from medical license records made available by the Municipal Medical Board. Our reference was Cultural-Historical Psychology as interpreted by Yves Clot's Clinic of Activity. We considered 35 sheets that refer to the teacher-student relationship during the process of teacher’s psychiatrization. Thereon, we divided categories between complaints and its developments, which  reveal  a  common  process  in  the  suffering  of  these  teachers.  The  results  note  that  the occupational psychopathologies is related to the precariousness and expropriation of the real of the activity from the workers. We conclude our research with emphasis on the intervention of the collective as  a  resource  to  face  psychiatrization,  as  well  as  subsidizing  public  policies  that  aim  to face the precariousness of work as a socially constituted process at the heart of a dialectical historical-social context.