The majority of Burnout researches uses methods and techniques that define a priori parameters of evaluation. As an alternative to this trend, the present article will present the narrative perspective as a method that allows the free expression of Burnout experience. This tool can extend the theoretical phenomenon understanding, traditionally studied for the following perspectives: Clinic; Sociohistoric and Contextual; Sociopsychological; and Career Development. After the description of these approaches, the narrative perspective will be presented - supplying a vision of Burnout as a process, therefore the narrative flow connects and points out elements traditionally classified as extra (cultural and labor variables) and intra-individual (values and meanings), overcoming dichotomies. These elements potentially integrated in a narrative can contribute for accomplishment of the syndrome's distinguishing diagnosis and the clinical interventions improvement.
Burnout; method narration; occupational diseases