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Kirkus Review
A self-help manual that covers nearly every psychological disability that life's difficulties might inflict on the psyche of a woman. The term burnout does not appear in medical dictionaries. It is a lay term that Freudenberger uses to link together a wide range of psychological difficulties which stress causes in both sexes. The condition (if it exists) seems quite similar to depression, from which Freudenberger carefully tries to separate it. His description: "". . .Burnout is caused by an excess of stress and fatigue and is characterized by a subsequent erosion of your energy and attitudes. . ."" He maintains that with this book in hand, women can learn to detect the condition, then cure it. This makes the reader both patient and doctor and is roughly equivalent to handing someone a book on how to psychoanalyze herself and promising her it can cure her neurosis. The reader is advised to analyze her own emotional problems, figure out their origin, what would bring about a cure and then to act positively about the difficulties. The very existence of burnout is not accepted by many psychiatrists. And the authors are too earnest, to the point of dullness, to prove it so. They do much preaching unhelped by leaden prose. A stuffy handbook for an iffy condition. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Library Journal Review
Addressed expressly to women who manifest symptoms of burnout yet are unable to recognize them as such, this new book by psychoanalyst/burnout expert Freudenberger ( Burnout , LJ 11/15/80) aims at assisting women in identifying the enemy before chronic problems and/or misdiagnosis occur. Using information gathered from his private practice as well as personal interviews, Freudenberger places most cases in a 12-stage Burnout Cycle, which traces the problem from its origins (a compulsion to prove oneself in various ways) through its ultimate phase (total burnout exhaustion). He also offers help towards recovery through an increase in self-awareness and self-esteem. An important addition to the genre, recommended for most general collections. Robert L. Jaquay, William K. Sanford Town Lib., Loudonville, N.Y. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
