The Burnout Syndrome as a Process of Alienation

The problem of alienation retains its significance and relevance in modern reality, where a serious specificity of the professional world is observed. Karl Marx was the first to relate alienation and production (professional) activity. Alienation as a problem and as a category is also received from Marx. He proceeded from the socioeconomic character of alienation, and therefore linked it to labor (professional) activity. He also investigated the confrontation of a person forced to live in a capitalist production that gives rise to the problem of alienation. The post-industrial era, characterized by changes in social reality with an obvious utilitarian, pragmatic and technocratic orientation, actualizes the interrelation of alienation and the burnout syndrome. Alienation in the modern professional world is the burnout syndrome associated with the onset of a sense of professional inauthenticity and existential emptiness. The burnout syndrome is a process of alienation, which gradually manifests itself at the basic levels of professional existence: alienation at the internal level, alienation at the external level, alienation at the professional level. The person's alienation of personal qualities that led them to professional activity is a burnout syndrome at the internal level. The alienation of their own professional status in society is defined as a professional burnout at the external level. The alienation from the competencies that the specialist has acquired is referred to as a burnout syndrome at the professional level. Alienation as the burnout syndrome is a combination of all levels of alienation in the profession, which in their unity and conditionality form the process. The burnout syndrome as a process of alienation compels a person to turn to an independent search for oneself, to search for one's own authenticity. The burnout syndrome is a manifestation of the non-authenticity of being. The specialist carries out his activities functionally, only in the "present" mode, comprehends professional activities in the context of surrounding things. An independent search for oneself will allow a person to remove the burnout syndrome as a kind of alienation.

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