Lonely
Subtitle: learning to live with solitude
By: Emily White
Edition: 1st Harper Perennial ed.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780061765100
Subjects: Loneliness; Women; Psychology; Social Isolation
Description: Despite having a demanding job, good friends, and a supportive family, Emily White spent many of her evenings and weekends alone at home, trying to understand why she felt so completely disconnected from everyone. In this insightful and soul-baring memoir, White recounts her struggle to comprehend and overcome her chronic loneliness, a debilitating condition that she contends deserves the same attention as depression and other mental difficulties. Interweaving her personal story with cutting-edge scientific research--as well as moving accounts offered by numerous lonely men and women--White provides a deep and thorough portrait of this increasingly common but too often ignored affliction.--From publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Harper, ©2010.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-338).
Table of contents: title: Preamble: The visit; title: pt. 1: Arrival. Premonition : waiting for the state to strike ; Truth : struggling with popular notions of what loneliness should be; title: pt. 2: Impact. The long haul : recognizing chronic loneliness as a problem in itself ; Heart and soul : how loneliness weaves its way into us ; Paradox : loneliness and the mystery of the changing self; title: pt. 3: Context. Handles : thinking about a state that feels so unwieldy ; The cohort effect : how our culture is leaving us lonelier ; Taboo : loneliness as the state you're not supposed to name; title: pt. 4: Resolution. Promises, promises : public and private ideas about responding to loneliness ; The good-bye look : listing, luck, and a difficult change.