Costa, Raphael Raniere de OliveiraMedeiros, Soraya Maria deSantanna, Julia Gomes Fernandes Costa deAraújo, Marília Souto deMenezes, Rejane Maria Paiva de2021-10-262021-10-262017COSTA, Raphael Raniere de Oliveira et al. O sofrimento psíquico e a saúde do trabalhador bancário. Revista Enfermagem Atual In Derme, v. 80, n. 18, p. 67-71, 2017. https://doi.org/10.31011/reaid-2017-v.80-n.18-art.351. Disponível em: https://revistaenfermagematual.com.br/index.php/revista/article/view/351/234.1519-339X2447-2034https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/44717It is a reflective theoretical essay that aimed to analyze the context of psychological distress in banking employees in its dimensions: immediate, specific, general and metacontextual. Following the proposal contextual perspective on the theoretical framework of Hinds, Chaves and Cypress (1992), the results were structured into four categories: mental suffering; structural changes in the banking sector; worker health surveillance policies; contemporary capitalism and the individual psychic manipulation. The psychological distress on bank workers, in association with the labor context is configured as a growing and serious problem regarding attention to workers’ health. Within the banking, therefore, it is necessary to analyze and understand the phenomenon of such suffering in depth and the contexts in which they operate becomes of paramount importance for the realization of advances in surveillance model in Occupational Health and the National Health System.Attribution 3.0 Brazilhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/br/Sofrimento PsíquicoAmbiente de TrabalhoSaúde do TrabalhadorPsychological DistressWork EnvironmentWorker Healtharticle