title: The stress of work, with bonus vaudeville section.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This paper applies a psychoanalytic perspective to notions of workplace stress.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  At its most extreme, workplace stress can evoke a crisis of conscience, and its sequelae include psychosis and suicide.
authors.affiliation: Consultant psychiatrist in private practice and at Manly Hospital, Fairlight, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Bruce
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lachter
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: crisis of conscience; workplace stress