Download or read book Shades of Loneliness written by Richard Stivers and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To varying degrees, loneliness has us all in its grip. In this incisive and controversial book, Richard Stivers rejects the recent emphasis on genetic explanations of psychological problems, arguing that the very organization of technological societies is behind the pervasive experience of loneliness. The extreme rationality that governs our institutions and organizations results in abstract and impersonal relationships in much of daily life. Moreover, as common meaning is gradually eroded, our connections to others become vague and tenuous. Our ensuing fear and loneliness, however, can be masked by an outgoing, extroverted personality. In its extreme form, loneliness assumes pathological dimensions in neurosis and schizophrenia. Stivers maintains that even here the causes remain social. The various forms of neuroses and psychoses follow the key contradictions of a technological society. For instance, narcissism and depression reflect the tension between power and meaninglessness that characterizes modern societies. Stivers demonstrates that there is a continuum from the normal "technological personality" through the various neuroses to full-blown schizophrenia. He argues that all forms of loneliness emanate from the same cause; they likewise share a common dynamic despite their differences. Loneliness, in its many manifestations, seems to be the price we must pay for living in the modern world. Yet nurturing family, friend, and community ties can mitigate its culturally and psychologically disorganizing power. This book is a clarion call for a renewal of moral awareness and custom to combat the fragmentation and depersonalization of our technological civilization.
Download or read book Shades of Loneliness written by Richard Stivers and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this incisive and controversial book, Richard Stivers rejects genetic explanations of psychological problems, arguing instead that the very organization of technological societies is behind the pervasive experience of loneliness. In its extreme form, loneliness assumes pathological dimensions in neurosis and schizophrenia, which reflect the contradiction between power and meaninglessness that characterizes modern life. Loneliness, in its many manifestations, seems to be the price we must pay for living in a technological world. Yet nurturing family, friend, and community ties can mitigate i.
Download or read book Shades of Loneliness written by Shame Taimu and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Touch of Loneliness written by Clark E. Moustakas and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1975 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Loneliness written by Robert Weiss and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1975-04-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loneliness is among the most common distresses. In one survey, a quarter of Americans interviewed said that they had suffered from loneliness within the past few weeks. Yet for a condition so pervasive, loneliness has received little professional attention. Loneliness: The Experience of Emotional and Social Isolation brings together papers which attempt to capture the phenomena of loneliness with case materials that illuminate the descriptive and theoretical acccounts. It is organized into seven sections, covering: explanations for the neglect of loneliness, and an attept to describe the condition; mechanisms underlying some forms of loneliness; a discussion of situations in which loneliness is commonly found; loneliness among those suffering the loss of a loved one; the loneliness of social isolation; resources available to the lonely; and, finally, a look at issues yet to be dealt with and some suggestions for the management of loneliness. This book is a useful resource for social scientists, clinicians, and individuals who now or in the future may suffer from loneliness.
Download or read book Loneliness as a Way of Life written by Thomas Dumm and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What does it mean to be lonely?” Thomas Dumm asks. His inquiry, documented in this book, takes us beyond social circumstances and into the deeper forces that shape our very existence as modern individuals. The modern individual, Dumm suggests, is fundamentally a lonely self. Through reflections on philosophy, political theory, literature, and tragic drama, he proceeds to illuminate a hidden dimension of the human condition. His book shows how loneliness shapes the contemporary division between public and private, our inability to live with each other honestly and in comity, the estranged forms that our intimate relationships assume, and the weakness of our common bonds. A reading of the relationship between Cordelia and her father in Shakespeare’s King Lear points to the most basic dynamic of modern loneliness—how it is a response to the problem of the “missing mother.” Dumm goes on to explore the most important dimensions of lonely experience—Being, Having, Loving, and Grieving. As the book unfolds, he juxtaposes new interpretations of iconic cultural texts—Moby-Dick, Death of a Salesman, the film Paris, Texas, Emerson’s “Experience,” to name a few—with his own experiences of loneliness, as a son, as a father, and as a grieving husband and widower. Written with deceptive simplicity, Loneliness as a Way of Life is something rare—an intellectual study that is passionately personal. It challenges us, not to overcome our loneliness, but to learn how to re-inhabit it in a better way. To fail to do so, this book reveals, will only intensify the power that it holds over us.
Download or read book Paths of Loneliness written by Margaret Mary Wood and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Anatomy of Loneliness written by Joseph Hartog and published by New York : International Universities Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shades Of Solitude written by S. K. Meenakshi and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A girl trapped in a dark cellar of neglect and loneliness. Dust motes of repression and ostracization settling over her arms and shoulders. A life full of shut doors and sneers. She clings to words and uses them as wings to fly across the world and levels of emotions. A tether, an anchor in a life of hubbub. It's not a tale about a girl finding her fairy tale prince or about a girl being scooped off from the dregs of poverty into foyers of affluence and wealth. It's a tale about a lonely girl finding solace in her solitude. It's about a girl coming to terms that sometimes perhaps no one will lend her a hand of assistance. Sometimes you have to crawl and grovel your way through life with bruised knees and flaming eyes. It's about a girl fighting for survival in a vacuum of solitude. It's about self-introspection and nights with tear-soaked pillows. But it's also about the charm of a flower, the anger in an oppressed woman and the sorrow of an inconspicuous poet.
Download or read book All the Lonely People written by Sam Carr and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Empathetic, enlightening, deeply human' - Michael Harris, author of Solitude An intimate portrait of loneliness, All the Lonely People sees psychologist Dr Sam Carr collect hours of conversations with people young and old, including single parents, carers, teenagers and the bereaved – all shared over countless cups of tea. In stories of love and loss, of trauma and hope, told from care homes, living rooms, classrooms and kitchens, Carr discovers that while each of their stories is utterly unique, they are all born out of the same desire for human connection. As Carr interweaves these touching and powerful tales with his own personal narrative, he opens a window onto the inner lives of regular people – the forgotten, misplaced or misjudged – who all feel isolated in some way. Sparking a profound conversation about a universal emotion, which may simply be an inevitable part of life in an increasingly disjointed world, he questions what we can do to build stronger human relationships, and to be a part of something bigger than ourselves.
Download or read book Loneliness written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lonely Shade written by Mary B. Lyons and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encounters with Loneliness written by Arlene Kramer Richards and published by Ipbooks. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encounters with Loneliness: Only the Lonely is a fascinating and diverse look at loneliness from a psychoanalytic perspective. The four sections of the book: Loneliness, Creativity and Artists; Clinical Dimensions of Loneliness; Loneli-ness/Solitude in the Psychoanalytic Training Process; Loneliness and Life Events testify to the encompassing scope of this anthology of essays about loneliness.
Download or read book Pieces of My Life written by Robt. G. Hoskins and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pieces of My Life references events, people, and places in Robt. G. Hoskins’ life. Pieces of his life—especially the non-poetry—expresses Hoskins’ views on topics such as justice, morality, human relations and behaviors, love, how we should act, and to whom we owe. About the Author Robt. G. Hoskins graduated from the U.S. Marine Corps Platoon Leaders School in Quantico, VA. He received the Sigma Tau Delta Award for best student in the English Department at Carroll College in 1957. Hoskins was an English teacher at Oconomowoc High School and taught for more than 25 years. Hoskins conducted eight political campaigns for election and lost every time; however, he was elected chairman of the Waukesha County Democratic Party in 1966. Hoskins was selected as an Alternate Delegate from the State of Wisconsin to the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and was selected for Who’s Who in American Politics. See Addendum for details of the things he did in life of which he is most proud.
Download or read book The Path of Loneliness written by Elisabeth Elliot and published by Vine Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twice widowed herself, beloved writer Elisabeth Elliot knows firsthand the pain of loneliness. In this compassionate book she speaks to the loneliness in every reader, revealing how the hardest feelings can bring us to a new awareness of the truth that we are a part of something grander and greater than ourselves. Through twenty-six tender and wise readings, Elliot points readers to God as a refuge for their heartache and longing.
Download or read book Loneliness Love and All That s Between written by Ami Rokach and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loneliness, as old as time itself, is not easy to define. It's a bit like love -- you know when you feel it, but cannot specifically define it. However, no one who ever walked on the face of this earth has gone through life without experiencing the pain of being lonely, alienated, and feeling unconnected to others, unloved, or even rejected. Although we, in the 21st century, pride ourselves as inventors [the Internet, computers, reaching the moon, and biomedical advances] we did not invent this one -- loneliness was here way before any of us, and consequently we can find it mentioned in the Bible, literature, art, and philosophy. And, as things appear now -- it is here to stay. In addition to addressing loneliness, its causes, and how it affects our health, well-being, and quality of life, we also discuss what loneliness anxiety is, and the difference between loneliness and depression, for those two may go together, but are actually different. While loneliness is inescapable, it does not mean that when we experience or feel it 'coming' that we just wait and embrace the pain until 'it' decides to leave us. People have developed various ways of coping with loneliness; learning to either avoid or better cope with it. This book lists a variety of successful methods to reduce the pain of loneliness, and in some ways, to reduce the probability of it happening.
Download or read book Godmaker written by Vasile Munteanu and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During nightly prayer a monk falls into a deep and unexpected meditative trance that takes him back and forth in time, forcing him to revisit life, reluctant intentions, and sublimated lusts. The night serves as both personal abyss and universal refuge to longstanding doubts, suppressed anger, and reluctant self-discovery. He is compelled and repelled by a most primal mystery and a most final revelation. Vasile Munteanu was born in Romania and moved to the United States as a teenager. He holds advanced degrees in both Literature and Philosophy from Oakland University in Michigan and State University of New York at Binghamton respectively. He teaches Philosophy and Literature at the College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas. Godmaker is his first novel.
