BURNOUT SYNDROME - CONCEPTS OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY AND CLINICAL MEDIATION THROUGH COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY

Abstract

The incidence of Burnout Syndrome or professional exhaustion syndrome among workers in the most diverse professions is growing significantly today. Given the direct and negative impact on the personal and organizational spheres, this research aims to investigate the relationships inherent to the pathology and issues related to the contemporary context, including a thematic approach to the reading of the philosopher Byng-Chul Han on society, which he calls the “Society of Fatigue”. A discussion will be presented about how its foundations of positivity and search for performance translate into an autistic individualism that assumes a multidimensional condition of chronic stress. This research has a bibliographic character and carries out an analysis confronting the consequentialist positioning of the subject of performance in the face of the mismatch of the cultural ethos, the ethical void, and the psychic violence that is denoted by excessive positivity and self-exploitation. It intends to reflect on the pathology of chronic exhaustion in the life of the worker, emphasizing that he becomes exploiter and, at the same time, exploited. We suggest a proposal for self-regulation through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as a possibility of responsible mediation that provides care between the daily challenges of a self-aware being and the complex area of ​​tension between the interests and demands of the performance subject.