On the depressive nature of the "burnout syndrome": A clarification.

The ‘‘burnout syndrome’’ has become popularly known since it was described in the 1970s and is today an emblem of workrelated ill-health [1,2]. Its phenomenological and nosological status, however, remains strongly debated [3]. In this viewpoint article, we defend the controversial position that burnout is a depressive syndrome. Our objective is to provide the psychiatry community with a different reading of burnout, a syndrome that in recent years has elicited increasing interest among psychiatrists.