Loneliness and longing : conscious and unconscious aspects / edited by Brent Willock, Lori C. Bohm, and Rebecca Coleman Curtis.

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012.

xii, 338 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. Loneliness in life and in treatment : psychoanalytic and existential perspectives -- pt. II. New forms of loneliness in cyberspace -- pt. III. Yearning and its vicissitudes -- pt. IV. Loneliness through the life cycle -- pt. V. Treating the difficult lonely patient -- pt. VI. Healing the traumatized analyst's loneliness -- pt. VII. Loneliness and yearnings in the sociocultural surround -- pt. VIII. Yearning for nonhuman connections -- pt. IX. Expanding our theories to understand and treat loneliness and yearnings -- pt. X. Reflections.