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Burnout, Fatigue, Exhaustion : An Interdisciplinary Perspective on a Modern Affliction /

This interdisciplinary book explores the connections and 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 b...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Group Author: Neckel, Sighard (Editor); Schaffner, Anna Katharina. (Editor); Wagner, Greta (Editor)
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Psychology.
Medicine > History.
Social medicine.
Health psychology.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Medical sociology.
History of Psychology.
History of Medicine.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52887-8
Summary: This interdisciplinary book explores the connections and 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 vast breadth of topics, this book will appeal to scholars of psychology, sociology, medicine, psychiatry, literature, and history.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(IX,279pages)
ISBN: 9783319528878
Index Number: R726
CLC: B84
Contents: Introduction; Sighard Neckel, Anna Katharina Schaffner and Greta Wagner -- Part I. Cultural-Historical Perspectives -- Chapter 1. Pre-Modern Exhaustion: On Melancholia and Acedia; Anna Katharina Schaffner -- Chapter 2. Neurasthenia and Managerial Disease in Germany and America: Transnational Ties and National Characteristics in the Field of Exhaustion 1880 1960; Patrick Kury -- Part II. Exhaustion syndromes -- Chapter 3. Exhaustion Syndromes: Concepts and Definitions; Johanna M. Doerr and Urs M. Natter -- Chapter 4. Burnout: A Short Socio-Cultural History; Wilmar Schaufeli -- Chapter 5. Burnout: From Work-Related Stress to a Cover-Up Diagnosis; Linda V. Heinemann and Torsten -- Part III. Exhaustion and Self-Realization -- Chapter 6. What We Talk About When We Talk About Mental Health: Toward anAnthropology of Adversity in Individualistic Society; Alain Ehrenberg -- Chapter 7. Self-Realization through Work and its Failure; Elin Thunman and Marcus Persson -- Chapter 8. Exhaustion and Euphoria: Self-Medication with Amphetamines; Greta Wagner -- Part IV. Exhaustion discourses -- Chapter 9. Rechargeable Man in a Hamster Wheel World: Contours of a Trendsetting Illness; Ulrich Br ckling -- Chapter 10. Literary Exhaustion; Michael Greaney -- Part V. Exhaustion and the Social -- Chapter 11. Social Agony and Agonizing Social Constructions; Iain Wilkinson -- Chapter 12. Exhaustion as a Sign of the Present; Sighard Neckel and Greta Wagner -- Conclusion; Sighard Neckel, Anna Katharina Schaffner and Greta Wagner.

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