Burnout as an identity rupture in the life course: a longitudinal narrative method.

The methodological article explores the process by which identity rupture generated by work-related burnout is encountered and managed over time. The article presents an in-depth case study based on follow-up interviews with a woman in her sixties. The study attempts to discover what kinds of continuities and changes in meaning making patterns are included in the burnout process and how these meaning making patterns are used to perform and negotiate identity stabilities and changes in the life course.