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Loneliness

By: Howard M. Bahr
In: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World
Edited by: Karen Christensen & David Levinson
Subject:Community Psychology, Sociology of Communities
Keywords:attachment; early identification; existentialism; loneliness; social skills training; solidarity; villages

The scientific study of loneliness is new, little more than a half-century old, but loneliness has always been a dominant theme in literature, philosophy, and art. “Loneliness universally forges its powerful expression in all great literature, often in disguise,” writes ...

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  Bahr, H. (2003). Loneliness. In K. Christensen, & D. Levinson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of community: From the village to the virtual world (Vol. 1, pp. 872-877). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n310
  
  Bahr, Howard M. "Loneliness." In Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, edited by Christensen, Karen, and David Levinson, 872-77. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n310.
  
  Bahr, H. 2003. Loneliness. In: Karen Christensen and David Levinson Editors, 2003. Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 872-877 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n310> [Accessed 14 May 2021].
  
  Bahr, Howard M. "Loneliness." Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. Edited by Karen Christensen and David Levinson. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003, pp. 872-77. SAGE Knowledge. 14 May 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n310.
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