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1 online resource |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 26, 2017). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Sighard Neckel, Anna Katharina Schaffner and Greta Wagner -- Part I Cultural-historical perspectives. Pre-modern exhaustion : on melancholia and acedia / Anna Katharina Schaffner -- Neurasthenia and managerial disease in Germany and America : transnational ties and national characteristics in the field of exhaustion 18801960 / Patrick Kury -- Part II Exhaustion syndromes. Exhaustion syndromes : concepts and definitions / Johanna M. Doerr and Urs M. Nater -- Burnout : a short socio-cultural history / Wilmar B. Schaufeli -- Burnout : from work-related stress to a cover-up diagnosis / Linda V. Heinemann and Torsten Heinemann -- Part III Exhaustion and self-realisation. What we talk about when we talk about mental health : towards an anthropology of adversity in individualistic society / Alain Ehrenberg -- Self-realisation through work and its failure / Elin Thunman and Marcus Persson -- Exhaustion and euphoria : self-medication with amphetamines / Greta Wagner -- Part IV Exhaustion discourses. Rechargeable man in a hamster wheel world : contours of a trendsetting illness / Ulrich Bröckling -- Literary exhaustion / Michael Greaney -- Part V Exhaustion and the social. Social agony and agonising social constructions / Iain Wilkinson -- Exhaustion as a sign of the present / Sighard Neckel and Greta Wagner -- Conclusion / Sighard Neckel, Anna Katharina Schaffner and Greta Wagner. |
| Subject |
Fatigue -- Psychological aspects.
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Fatigue -- Social aspects.
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PSYCHOLOGY / Physiological Psychology.
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| Added Author |
Neckel, Sighard, 1956- editor.
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Schaffner, Anna Katharina, editor.
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Wagner, Greta, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783319528878 (electronic bk.) |
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3319528874 (electronic bk.) |
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9783319528861 |
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