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1 author picked The Burnout Society as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

It comes at the question and experience of burnout from a philosophical perspective - so it doesn't just offer tips and superficial tactics to deal with burnout, it reveals and uncovers the human outlooks and social narratives that lead us to and make us vulnerable to burnout.

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December on 5C4 by Adam Strassberg,

Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!

On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…

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