Productores del sufrimiento psíquico en el personal de salud

Abstract

This article is an academic essay, in which we tried to recover, organize and present the conditions in which health personnel have carried out their work during the Covid-19 pandemic and show how the psychological discomfort that is generated there seems to come from of the collective meanings, symbols, links, representations and passions that challenge subjectivity. For this purpose, testimonies of personnel working in hospitals in Mexico City and in State of Mexico are recovered. Six sources of psychic suffering are identified, which makes the answer to the question “how does suffering manifest itself in health personnel?” more complex, a question that we try to address from the category of psychic suffering. Our objective is to recover the experience of the staff rather than to carry out a critique or analysis of the discomfort of others or to establish a debate with the authors who have devoted themselves to the subject.