Abstract
Summary: The burnout syndrome was first described by H. Freudenberger in 1974.
It is defined as a loss of professional or personal interest in a member of the assisting profession, or as a result of a process in which people very intensively engaged in a particular task or idea lose their enthusiasm. This is a psychic state, an exhaustion experience.
All the main components of the burnout syndrome are based on chronic stress. John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth's emotional bond theory studies the emotional attachment of a small child to their mother and other close persons.
The term attachment in widespread significance may indicate emotional adherence in general. However, if the caregiver's behavior is evoidant or inconsistent, one of the types of insecure attachment is created.
The ability of a parent to respond to the child's behavioral habits and the type of his / her reactions are derived, in particular, from his / her own child's parenting experience, so the type of probability bond is passed on to the next generation and can also influence the professional behavior. Empathy is understood as an understanding of the emotions and motives of the other person and is a basic concept of humanistic psychology.
Affective empathy is concentrated in the insular part of the brain, while cognitive is close to thecallosum. Empathy in the perception of strangers and their own pain is concentrated in another part of the brain and is therefore not in the case of empathy of innate sensory affair.
The aim of our research was to find out how burnout syndrome is related to empathy and emotional attachment in medical staff.