Burn Out: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat, Hannah Proctor, Verso, London, 2024. New PB. Jettisoning self-help narratives and individualizing therapy talk, Proctor offers a different way forward - neither denial nor despair. Her cogent exploration of the ways militants have made sense of their own burnout demonstrates that it is possible to mourn and organise at once, and to do both without compromise.