title: [Social anomie and the renewed increase of mental health problems at the work place].
abstract: Several studies on mental health in the workplace show a renewed increase of mental health problems. These problems, related to workplace relations, present social causes of a much larger degree; for instance, the social anomy afflicting Québec is rippling through the workplace, much like what many other industrialized societies are experiencing during this end of century. The sensitive social balance, in principle under the responsibility of social institutions and government, has given business the opportunity to occupy a central position and become the major forum for an individual's search for identity. This centrality carries with it a certain number of strong contradictions and disappointments because, in spite of the rhetoric and its illusions, corporations are loyal to economic logic and take a perverse ownership of one of the individual's most important values, namely the quest and desire to be defined as a person and to be acknowledged as such. As a result, individuals often find themselves in a fragile state, at times even left with deconstructed psyches.
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Carpentier-Roy
mesh_terms: D000850:Anomie; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D008603:Mental Health; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000523:psychology*; D016272:Occupational Health; D012307:Risk Factors; D017132:Workplace