Guillant and Dejours' Teachings on Labor and Mental Health ControlFocusing on Parisian Telephonists – 1949 Idel Profeta Ribeiro, Marcelo Lamy

Abstract

The idea of this article is to compare the theoretical analyzes of Louis Le Guillant, and Christophe Dejours in relation to control over work and its impact on workers' mental health, specifically based on research with telephone operators at Parisian telephone exchanges. We briefly present the contributions of these two psychiatrists: Louis Le Guillant and Christophe Dejours to the construction of the psychopathology of work in France in the last century, at different times, but which contributed significantly to the world. The main category of analysis to understand the similarities and differences between them were their theories, the first based on Marxism, and the second based on psychoanalysis. And we conclude that control over work has significant impacts on the mental health of telephone operators in the two theoretical constructs. But it is also clear that the organizational context and the centrality of work as a field of study can differentiate the outcome depending on the applied theoretical basis. We used as a research method the literature review.