This book shows how to recognize, prevent and cure burnout syndrome for nurses, teachers, counselors, doctors, therapists, police, social workers, and anyone else who cares about and for people. Christina Maslach, the leading pioneer in research on burnout, offers help using illustrative examples and first-hand accounts. She points out what causes the feelings of emotional exhaustion, the callous indifference to people's problems, and the sense of inadequacy about one's ability to help and relate to others. From the First Chapter: Burnout. The word evokes images of a final flickering flame, of a charred and empty shell, of dying embers and cold, gray ashes. And, indeed, these images aptly express what these three people, Carol, Jim, and Jane, are now experiencing. All of them were once fired up about their involvement with other people, excited, full of energy, dedicated, willing to give tremendously of themselves for others. And, they did give... and give, and give until finally there was nothing left to give anymore. The teapot was empty, the battery was drained, the circuit was overloaded, they had burned out

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