What are you doing for the holidays?”—stirs up feelings of loneliness, alienation, shame, and stigma for the estranged.

Feelings of isolation, alienation, aloneness and loneliness are pervasive in the twenty-first century. Scientific studies suggest some possible linkage between feelings of chronic loneliness and heart ...

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Haruki Murakami’s 'Norwegian Wood' reshaped my understanding of loneliness through grief, memory, and quiet disconnection.

In a world that is more connected than ever, a silent epidemic is taking its toll. Overall, 1 in 3 US adults report chronic loneliness — a condition so detrimental that it rivals smoking and obesity ...

In this age of pervasive alienation and loneliness, it is worth remembering the root of all human connection and the template for human love: that is, the mother-child dyad. That connection begins in ...

Anna Sokolow's 1955 work "Rooms" is not an easy dance to watch. It's intensely dark, and it focuses on isolation, alienation and loneliness. But to see the stark beauty of its steps and to feel the ...

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