<p>Edited by Arlene Kramer Richards Lucille Spira and Arthur A. Lynch this book is primarily based on Symposium 2012:&nbsp; On Loneliness which took place at Mount Sinai Medical Center in March 2012 and also on the discussion group&mdash;Towards an Understanding of Loneliness and Aloneness in Women (now Towards an Understanding of Loneliness and Aloneness)&mdash;at the American Psychoanalytic Association meetings in New York City which was started by Arlene Kramer Richards and Lucille Spira.</p>