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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254808203321

Titolo

Burnout, Fatigue, Exhaustion : An Interdisciplinary Perspective on a Modern Affliction   / / edited by Sighard Neckel, Anna Katharina Schaffner, Greta Wagner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-52887-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 316 p.)

Disciplina

616.89

Soggetti

Health psychology

Personality

Social psychology

Social medicine

Psychology

Medicine—History

Health Psychology

Personality and Social Psychology

Medical Sociology

History of Psychology

History of Medicine

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Bröckling -- 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.