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Social Suffering and an Approach to Professionals’ Burnout

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Individual and social problems require the assistance of professionals who are accustomed to work with “suffering” on daily basis. Psychologists, physicians, and social workers step into this role helping alleviate the suffering and improve the quality of life of their patients and clients. But, inevitably, they experience suffering as they address others’ problems. Their own well-being and quality of life may be reduced by their work in helping. We interviewed Argentinean professionals about their experience of patient, personal, and suffering conditions in order to determine the level of transference and turn to the practice of Yoga as a possible physical and psychological approach to mediating suffering. As such professionals work to improve their clients’ quality of life, they must be provided the tools to preserve their own.