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Loneliness: the experience of emotional and social isolation / Robert S. Weiss, with contributions by John Bowlby [and others] Foreword by David Riesman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1975Copyright date: ©1973Description: xxii, 236 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262230674
  • 9780262230674
  • 0262730413
  • 9780262730419
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 158.2
LOC classification:
  • BF575.L7 W44
Contents:
1. The study of loneliness -- 2. The nature of loneliness: Affectional bonds: their nature and origin / by John Bowlby -- Separation anxiety: an aspect of the search for a lost object / by C. Murray Parkes -- 3. Who are the lonely?: Individuals most troubled by loneliness / by the Women's Group on Public Welfare -- 4. The loneliness of emotional isolation: Loneliness: forms and components / by Helena Znaniecki Lopata -- A widower: Mr. Neilson -- Alone, alone, all, all alone / by Morton M. Hunt -- After the breakup: Mrs. Graham -- 5. The loneliness of social isolation: Moving and depression in women / by Myrna M. Weismanand Eugene S. Paykel -- An uprooted woman: Mrs. Phillips -- Isolation and loneliness in the aged / by Peter Townsend -- 6. Responses to loneliness: Relying on one's community: Mrs. Davis -- Parents without partners as a supplementary community -- 7. Conclusion: summary and implications for further study.
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1. The study of loneliness -- 2. The nature of loneliness: Affectional bonds: their nature and origin / by John Bowlby -- Separation anxiety: an aspect of the search for a lost object / by C. Murray Parkes -- 3. Who are the lonely?: Individuals most troubled by loneliness / by the Women's Group on Public Welfare -- 4. The loneliness of emotional isolation: Loneliness: forms and components / by Helena Znaniecki Lopata -- A widower: Mr. Neilson -- Alone, alone, all, all alone / by Morton M. Hunt -- After the breakup: Mrs. Graham -- 5. The loneliness of social isolation: Moving and depression in women / by Myrna M. Weismanand Eugene S. Paykel -- An uprooted woman: Mrs. Phillips -- Isolation and loneliness in the aged / by Peter Townsend -- 6. Responses to loneliness: Relying on one's community: Mrs. Davis -- Parents without partners as a supplementary community -- 7. Conclusion: summary and implications for further study.

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