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Loneliness is an unpleasant emotional response to perceived isolation. Loneliness is also described as social pain – a psychological mechanism that motivates individuals to seek social connections. It is often associated with a perceived lack of connection and intimacy. Loneliness overlaps and yet is distinct from solitude. Solitude is simply ...
The loneliness epidemic is an ongoing trend of loneliness and social isolation experienced by people across the globe. [1] [2] The increase may have begun in the 2010s and was exacerbated by the isolating effects of social distancing, stay-at-home orders, and deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Weiss was born in New York. [1] She obtained a Bachelor's Degree at Cornell University, followed by an M.A. and a Ph.D. at Columbia University. [1] Weiss graduated from Columbia in 1977, where she worked at the Bureau of Applied Social Research. [1] In 1978 she became a faculty member at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard. [1]
"Loneliness" is a short-story by Charles Bukowski collected in his 1973 collection South of No North, originally published by John Martin's Black Sparrow Press. It's the first short-story of the book.
D. W. Winnicott in his article of that name (1958/64) highlighted the importance of the capacity to be alone, distinguishing it from both withdrawal and loneliness, and seeing it as derived from an internalisation of the non-intrusive background presence of a mothering figure. [2]
Clark E. Moustakas (May 26, 1923 – 10 October 2012) was an American psychologist and one of the leading experts on humanistic and clinical psychology.He helped establish the Association for Humanistic Psychology and the Journal of Humanistic Psychology.
Louise Weiss (25 January 1893 – 26 May 1983) was a French author, journalist, feminist, and European politician. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 and for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974 .