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A new collection of case stories from "the Oliver Sacks of law."In this follow-up to his acclaimed book, Four Seasons of Loneliness (winner of the 2017 Independent Publishers Gold Prize as the best book of the year in Psychology / Mental Health), social psychologist turned lawyer J. W. Freiberg continues to explore chronic loneliness, one of modern society's most serious public health crises.In Surrounded by Others and Yet So Alone, he again d...

Growing Up Lonely is derived from papers presented at the 2018 symposium, "Loneliness and the Power of Permanency, " attended by more than four hundred mental health professionals and sponsored by The Home for Little Wanderers, the United States' first child social welfare agency, founded in 1799.With insights aimed at both professional clinicians and the general public, the book features papers by Harvard Medical School psychiatry professors ...

What happens when loneliness engulfs us? How do we manage life when the absence of adequate connections becomes an excruciating hunger? During his extraordinary decades-long career as an attorney, J. W. Freiberg consulted on hundreds of cases involving clients affected by chronic and debilitating loneliness. Here, in four adapted stories from his practice, he reveals how loneliness can impact us in every season of our lives. A fascinating cast...