Surrounded by Others and Yet So Alone

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  • A
  • new
  • collection
  • of
  • case
  • stories
  • from
  • “the
  • Oliver
  • Sacks
  • of
  • law.”In
  • this
  • follow-up
  • to
  • his
  • acclaimed
  • book,
  • “Four
  • Seasons
  • of
  • Loneliness”
  • (winner
  • of
  • the
  • 2017
  • Independent
  • Publishers
  • Gold
  • Prize
  • as
  • the
  • best
  • book
  • of
  • the
  • year
  • in
  • Psychology
  • /
  • Mental
  • Health),
  • social
  • psychologist
  • turned
  • lawyer
  • J.
  • W.
  • Freiberg
  • continues
  • to
  • explore
  • chronic
  • loneliness,
  • one
  • of
  • modern
  • society’s
  • most
  • serious
  • public
  • health
  • crises.In
  • “Surrounded
  • by
  • Others
  • and
  • Yet
  • So
  • Alone,”
  • he
  • again
  • draws
  • from
  • his
  • thirty-year
  • legal
  • career
  • to
  • present
  • five
  • unique
  • tales.
  • While
  • “Four
  • Seasons
  • of
  • Loneliness”
  • studied
  • the
  • devastation
  • caused
  • by
  • social
  • isolation,
  • here
  • Freiberg
  • explores
  • the
  • impact
  • of
  • faulty
  • connections
  • in
  • failing
  • relationships.
  • But
  • don’t
  • expect
  • to
  • be
  • lectured
  • on
  • the
  • topic;
  • you
  • will
  • find
  • yourself
  • reading
  • a
  • collection
  • of
  • deeply
  • human
  • stories.
  • And
  • that’s
  • a
  • good
  • thing,
  • because
  • Freiberg
  • is
  • a
  • master storyteller.
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