Global burnout

Pascal Chabot's polemic treatise - 'Global Burnout' - takes the phenomenon we call burnout as not just an individual problem that affects a few exhausted people, but rather 'a disease of civilisation', connected to concepts of progress, technology and desire, which are the hallmarks of this era of experimentation.

First analysing the archaeology of the concept, Chabot distinguishes three main types of burnout: the first, specific to professions who help others, appears to be the exhaustion of their humanism; the second, a trouble of adaptation and perfectionism; and the third, which is a consequence of the struggle for recognition.