“枯竭”(burnout)一词原指耗竭、燃尽。1961年,美国作家格林尼出版了一本书,名为《一个枯竭的案例》。书中描写一名建筑师因不堪忍受精神上的痛苦和折磨,逃往非洲原始森林,从而“枯竭”一词进入美国社会。1974年美国精神分析学家Freudenberger首次将它使用在心理健康领域,用来 The word “burnout” originally meant depletion and burnout. In 1961, the American writer Greene published a book called “A Depletion Case.” The book describes an architect who fled to Africa’s virgin forest because of unbearable mental pain and suffering, and thus the term “exhausted” entered the American society. In 1974, American psychoanalyst Freudenberger used it for the first time in the field of mental health.