title: Nurses' burnout: an existential psychodynamic perspective.
abstract: 1. According to Psychodynamic Theory the reason why most people choose a career has to do with childhood experiences. 2. Both qualitative and quantitative data suggest that nurses' burnout is caused by a failure to derive existential significance from work. 3. Nurses' sense of significance seems to be related to control and is often caused by childhood experiences of lack of control.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Malach-Pines
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000523:psychology*; D005086:Existentialism; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D016526:Workload / Q000523:psychology