Burnout: from popular culture to psychiatric diagnosis in Sweden.
This article aims to understand how burn-out became an object of thought, through the study of certain processes of legitimization. It traces the genealogy of the burn-out concept from the initial article from 1974, via its confirmation as a "disease" in the 1980s, to its appearance as a legitimate diagnosis in Sweden in 1997. The theoretical framework is that of applied metaphysics, which means a study on how a specific phenomenon came into being. Consequently, I take departure from ontology in motion with an approach that concerns the legitimization processes. The conclusion will show the underlying processes of legitimization in relation to the making of a psychiatric object of thought in Swedish society.
Department of Health and Society, Malmö University, Sweden. torbjorn.friberg@mah.se
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D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003210:Concept Formation; D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013548:Sweden