O ADOECIMENTO PSICOLÓGICO DOS POLICIAIS NO EXERCÍCIO DA PROFISSÃO The psychological illness of police officers in the exercise of their profession

Abstract

The emotional coercion exerted on police officers in our society can have several consequences that are of public interest. Dealing with the continuous coercion addressed to the police, given the role assigned to them of preventing and combating violence in the social sphere, generates some complications, ranging from physical to psychological wear. Trying to understand the phenomena that occur, namely, anxiety disorders, depression and, many times, suicide, has been an arduous task and has had some success since the 1990s through studies observing police groups. In the research, a subcategory of psychiatry is created, suicidiology, which was created to analyze these phenomena more deeply and thus elucidate other disorders that contribute to their aggravation in relation to the group in question.