Burnout, Fatigue, Exhaustion
Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Modern Affliction
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9783319528861
Subjects: Suffering
Description: "This interdisciplinary book explores both the connections and the tensions between sociological, psychological, and biological theories of exhaustion. It examines how the prevalence of exhaustion - both as an individual experience and as a broader socio-cultural phenomenon - is manifest in the epidemic rise of burnout, depression, and chronic fatigue. It provides innovative analyses of the complex interplay between the processes involved in the production of mental health diagnoses, socio-cultural transformations, and subjective illness experiences. Using many of the existing ideologically charged exhaustion theories as case studies, the authors investigate how individual discomfort and wider social dynamics are interrelated. Covering a broad range of topics, this book will appeal to those working in the fields of psychology, sociology, medicine, psychiatry, literature, and history"--