Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude Silence and Loneliness

<i>The Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude Silence and Loneliness</i> is the first major account integrating research on solitude silence and loneliness from across academic disciplines and across the lifespan. The editors explore how being alone - in its different forms positive and negative as solitude silence and loneliness - is learned and developed and how it is experienced in childhood and youth adulthood and old age. Philosophical psychological historical cultural and religious issues are addressed by distinguished scholars from Europe North and Latin America and Asia.