Syndrome of burnout and project of being

Abstract

The physical and emotional exhaustion related to work has become a more and more frequent problem inside organizations. Since the seventy's it has been defined as burnout syndrome. Its researchers have supported that burnout syndrome develops as one answer to chronic stressors existing in work organizations. However, the current state of knowledge about the burnout syndrome process of development has been evidenced for many as a theoretical problem not yet solved. In the quest for understanding this process, that initiates with the experience of the chronic stress and leads to emotional exhaustion, despersonalization and reduced personal accomplishment, a variable regularly present in this process has not been given scientific treatment, which mean: the relation of the professional with his project for the future, more precisely, the relation of this professional with the failure of the projected future. The use of the definition project of being of Sartre will search to evidence the relevance to theoretically articulate the definition project of being with the process of development of the burnout syndrome for the advance of the comprehension of this complex phenomenon.