The lonely American : drifting apart in the twenty-first century / Jacqueline Olds and Richard S. Schwartz.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Olds, Jacqueline
Other Authors: Schwartz, Richard (Richard S.)
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, [2009], ©2009.
Subjects:
Social isolation > United States.
Loneliness > United States.
Physical Description:228 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The elephant in the room
  • Frantic without a peep: busyness as a virtue and a curse
  • Self-reliance: do lonesome cowboys sing the blues?
  • Left out: an organism under stress
  • Free at last: American living arrangements
  • The technology of relationships: a brief review
  • Love and marriage in a busy world
  • The ripple effects of increasing social isolation
  • Social disconnection and the mental health industry
  • Staying limber.