Burnout, Fatigue, Exhaustion by Sighard Neckel Anna Katharina Schaffner & Greta Wagner

Author:Sighard Neckel, Anna Katharina Schaffner & Greta Wagner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

This is the point that should be highlighted. Building social dialogue between employers and employees takes time, implies a definition of methods, the elaboration of a shared diagnosis by stakeholders, and so on. These are the only means to find the way for action for change. This is a much more difficult and demanding political task than general jeremiads on neo-liberalism.

New social risks also require public policies regarding investment in the skills of individuals from an early age (in preschool, for example), adapting and securing professional trajectories, accommodating critical life course transitions, and so on.9 This is the pathway to be taken if the wish were really to improve the world, and not only denounce its social ills.

The central axiom of my analysis is, then, that the idea that society causes psychic suffering is itself a social idea, and consequently should itself be an object for sociology, that is, an object for sociology to analyse and investigate. This goes together with recognising that mental health cannot be approached solely as a public health issue, nor solely as a domain of pathology (though, of course, it is also both of these). It does not constitute a distinct reality that can be ‘cut out’ from social life, nor can it be summed up in a list of problems to be solved. In its very essence, it characterises an attitude towards adversity and suffering in a global context in which ideas, values, and norms of autonomy are the supreme value.

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