In this episode of All in the Mind, Natasha Mitchell looks at the science of loneliness with Emily White, author of Lonely: Learning to Live with Solitude. You can read a little more about this topic at Natasha Mitchell's All in the Mind blog.
Loneliness: breaking the taboo
Loneliness has been with Emily White for as long as she can remember. Smart, savvy, popular - none of this has inoculated her against 'the ghost in her life'. Her memoir is an encounter with the emerging, powerful science of loneliness, and a taboo like few.Guests
Emily White
Writer & policy advisor
Toronto
Canada
http://www.lonelythebook.com/
Further Information
- Emily White's blog
- Loneliness swallowed me up - Emily White in The Guardian newspaper.
- Blog post by Natasha with extra audio of Emily White's interview
- John Cacioppo's Loneliness blog (Psychology Today)
- Professor John Cacioppo on Loneliness (video, Big Think)
- Home Alone: Combating isolation with older housebound people Report by Helen McCarthy and Gillian Thomas, DEMOS, 2004.
- Is technology making us lonely? - ABC Health and Wellbeing's The Pulse Feature by Branwen Morgan, 2011.
- The End of Solitude, by William Deresiwicz Published in The Chronicle Review, 2009.
- University of Amsterdam's Professor Nan Stevens' work on social isolation
- Ostracism: The Cruel Power of Silence (Part 1 of 2) Broadcast on All in the Mind, ABC Radio National, 2004.
- Ostracism: The Cruel Power of Silence (Part 2 of 2) Broadcast on All in the Mind, ABC Radio National, 2004.
Publications
Title: Lonely: Learning to Live with Solitude
Author: Emily White
Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2011
Title: Loneliness Matters: A theoretical and empirical review of consequences and mechanisms.
Author: Hawkley, L. C. & Cacioppo, J. T.
Publisher: Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 40(2), 218, 2010.
URL: http://psychology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/cacioppo/abm218.pdf
Title: A meta-analysis of interventions to reduce loneliness.
Author: Masi, C. M., Chen, H. Y., Hawkley, L. C., & Cacioppo, J. T.
Publisher: Personality and Social Psychology Review, 15(3), 219-266, 2011
URL: http://psychology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/cacioppo/2011-mchc.pdf
Title: Perceived Social Isolation Makes Me Sad: 5-Year Cross-Lagged Analyses of Loneliness and Depressive Symptomatology in the Chicago Health, Aging, and Social Relations Study
Author: John T. Cacioppo, Louise C. Hawkley, and Ronald A. Thisted
Publisher: Psychology and Aging , 2010.
URL: http://psychology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/cacioppo/pa2010cht.pdf
Title: Familial resemblance for loneliness
Author: Distel, M. A., Rebollo-Mesa, I., Adbellaoui, A., Derom, C. A., Willemsen, G., Cacioppo, J. T. & Boomsma, D. I.
Publisher: Behavior Genetics. 10 Feb 2010.
URL: http://psychology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/cacioppo/familial.pdf
Title: Loneliness predicts increased blood pressure: Five-year cross-lagged analysis in middle-aged and older adults.
Author: Hawkley, L. C., Thisted, R. A., Masi, C. M., & Cacioppo, J. T.
Publisher: Psychology and Aging, 25, 132-141, 2010.
URL: http://psychology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/cacioppo/jtcreprints/htmc2010.pdf
Title: Combating loneliness : a friendship enrichment programme for older women
Author: Nan Stevens
Publisher: Ageing and Society, 21, 2001, 183-202
URL: http://www.iscet.pt/sites/default/files/obsolidao/Combating_loneliness_friendship_enrichment_%20progr_older_%20women.pdf
Presenter
Natasha Mitchell
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