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The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the Twenty-first Century (repost)

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The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the Twenty-first Century (repost)

The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the Twenty-first Century By Jacqueline Olds, Richard S. Schwartz
Publisher: Beacon Press 2009-02-01 | 228 Pages | ISBN: 0807000345 | PDF | 2 MB

The personal and societal effects of the unheralded epidemic of social isolation in America

In today's world, it is more acceptable to be depressed than to be lonely-yet loneliness appears to be the inevitable byproduct of our frenetic contemporary lifestyle. According to the 2004 General Social Survey, one out of four Americans talked to no one about something of importance to them during the last six months. Another remarkable fact emerged from the 2000 U.S. Census: more people are living alone today than at any point in the country's history-fully 25 percent of households consist of one person only. In this crucial look at one of America's few remaining taboo subjects-loneliness-Drs. Jacqueline Olds and Richard S. Schwartz set out to understand the cultural imperatives, psychological dynamics, and physical mechanisms underlying social isolation.