Longues journées de travail, accélération des communications, fatigue mentale : les angoisses associées au burn out existaient déjà au XIXᵉ siècle. Les réponses apportées à l’époque pourraient encore nourrir nos réflexions sur le bien-être aujourd’hui.
- Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford
Victorians were acutely aware of the health problems which could come from devotion to the ‘gospel of work’.
As early as the 1860s the twin diseases of modernity – overwork and sleeplessness – became the focus of cultural anxieties.
Today, the causes of many phobias are as inscrutable as ever – but they were only ‘invented’ in the 19th century.
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