This book represents a comprehensive examination of loneliness in childhood and adolescence.

Explains the causes and symptoms of loneliness and depression and how to deal with loneliness.

In recent years its medical implications have brought loneliness to the centre of attention of mass media, government agents, and the general public. However, a

A pioneering neuroscientist reveals the reasons for chronic loneliness--which he defines an unrecognized syndrome--and brings it out of the shadow of its cousin

"To be alone is to be different. To be different is to be alone, and to be in the interior of this fatal circle is to be lonely. To be lonely is to have failed"