Loneliness and Longing Conscious and Unconscious Aspects [Paperback]

We all experience loneliness at some time in our lives and it often motivates people, consciously or otherwise, to enter treatment. Yet it is rarely explicitly addressed in psychoanalytic literature. Loneliness and Longingrectifies this oversight by thoroughly exploring this painful psychological state.

In this book contributors address the inner sense of loneliness  that is feeling alone even in the company of others  by drawing on different aspects of loneliness and longing. Topics covered include:

• loneliness in the consulting room
• the relationship between loneliness and love
• the effects of social networking and the internet
• how loneliness changes throughout the life-cycle
• healing the analysts loneliness.

Loneliness and Longingdraws on both theory and practice to discuss ways to help people to understand and cope with this important emotional state, encouraging them to make loneliness and longing less pervasive in their lives. This will be ideal reading for analysts, psychotherapists, and related practitioners facing the challenges of loneliness in their consulting rooms.

Bohm, Introduction. Part I: Loneliness in Life and in Treatment: Psychoanalytic and Existential Perspectives.Buechler, Someone to Watch Over Me. Frie, The Lived Experience of Loneliness: An Existential-Phenomenological Perspective. Part II: New Forms of Loneliness in Cyberspace. Eisold, Loneliness and Love-making On-line. O'Leary,Less Lonely in A Second life? A Psychologist goes Under Cover in Virtual Reality. Lombardi, Internal Space and (Dis)Connection in Cyberspace: Adolescent Longings in a Pseudo-Connected Society. Part III: Yearning and its Vicissitudes.