CONTRIBUTORS: Sam CarrEAN: 9781035005529COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 0 gHEIGHT: 234 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan MacmillanDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Depression, PSYCHOLOGY / Grief & LossWIDTH: 153 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
c 2020 to c 2029, Psychology of ageing, Family psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Psychology: emotions
In this elegant and fascinating book the taboo of loneliness is lifted. Sam Carr invites us into the lives of the lonely, and also into his own. His encounters — empathetic, enlightening, deeply human — help us to look deeply at a state of being that so many have come to fear.
Sam Carr is a psychologist and social scientist with the Department of Education and Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath. He was the director of The Loneliness Project, a partnership between the University of Bath and Guild Living (a later living retirement community provider). He has written extensively in the media about his research and has spoken about it on local and national radio, as well as being an academic expert on various television documentaries. Sam lives in rural Wiltshire with his son and their cat.
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CONTRIBUTORS: Sam CarrEAN: 9781035005529COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 0 gHEIGHT: 234 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan MacmillanDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Depression, PSYCHOLOGY / Grief & LossWIDTH: 153 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
c 2020 to c 2029, Psychology of ageing, Family psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Psychology: emotions
Sam Carr is a psychologist and social scientist with the Department of Education and Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath. He was the director of The Loneliness Project, a partnership between the University of Bath and Guild Living (a later living retirement community provider). He has written extensively in the media about his research and has spoken about it on local and national radio, as well as being an academic expert on various television documentaries. Sam lives in rural Wiltshire with his son and their cat.
From the first couple of pages, it kept me on the edge of my seat. I love the way J. C. Rosenberg writes and this is a prime example of what reading should be like.