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Solitude Psychology Social isolation Social withdrawal Being alone Wiley-Blackwell

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Book Title: The Handbook of Solitude: Psychological Perspectives on Social Isolation, Social Withdrawal, and Being Alone	
Book Author: Robert J. Coplan, Julie C. Bowker
Hardcover: 608 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (February 3, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 111842736X
ISBN-13: 978-1118427361

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Book Description
Publication Date: February 3, 2014 | ISBN-10: 111842736X | ISBN-13: 978-1118427361 | Edition: 1
This reference work offers a comprehensive compilation of current psychological research related to the construct of solitude:
*** Explores numerous psychological perspectives on solitude, including those from developmental, neuropsychological, social, personality, and clinical psychology
*** Examines different developmental periods across the lifespan, and across a broad range of contexts, including natural environments, college campuses, relationships, meditation, and cyberspace
*** Includes contributions from the leading international experts in the field
*** Covers concepts and theoretical approaches, empirical research, as well as clinical applications.

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Reviews
Solitude has had a bad name in our society, and in our psychology: it is often equated with isolation, loneliness, shyness, and social awkwardness. The Handbook discusses these, but abundantly treats the other side solitude that fosters insight, connection, creativity, introspection, healing, and enlightenment. This is a badly needed and broadly focused antidote for the negative approach, and its group of expert contributors provides a fuller understanding of a state people often experience, and sometimes need.
—Peter Suedfeld, Dean Emeritus of Graduate Studies and Professor Emeritus of Psychology, The University of British Columbia

This large volume is a veritable feast of information and perspectives on the important topic of solitude. Scholars from diverse sub-disciplines of psychology (e.g., developmental, clinical, social, neuroscience, cultural psychology) and varied disciplines (e.g., sociology, anthropology, political science, religious studies, computer science, biology) weigh in on this complex topic. Even the most knowledgeable reader will learn much about types and potential causes and outcomes of solitude and be exposed to new theoretical frameworks.
—Nancy Eisenberg, Regents Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University

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From the Back Cover
Over the course of a lifespan, humans experience solitude for a wide variety of reasons and subjectively respond to seclusion with a wide range of reactions and consequences. A Handbook of Solitude: Psychological Perspectives on Social Isolation, Social Withdrawal, and Being Alone presents a comprehensive compilation of the most cutting edge psychological research related to the construct of solitude.
Featuring contributions from international experts in the field, readings explore aspects of solitary behavior from myriad psychological perspectives, including developmental, neuropsychological, social, personality, and clinical; during different developmental periods across the lifespan; and across a broad range of contexts, including various natural environments, college campuses, singlehood, meditation, and cyberspace. Other insights into solitude are garnered through extra-disciplinary researchers in fields such as biology, anthropology, sociology, political science, religious studies, and philosophy. Innovative and illuminating, this handbook represents the definitive treatment of the psychological concept of solitude as an area of study.

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About the Author
Robert J. Coplan is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Carleton University and Director of the Pickering Centre for Research in Human Development. Dr. Coplan is co-editor of The Development of Shyness and Social Withdrawal (2010), and Social Development in Childhood and Adolescence: A Contemporary Reader (2011), and a former editor of the journal, Social Development.
Julie C. Bowker is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Her research program focuses on the roles that close interpersonal relationships play in socio-emotional development and psychopathology during late childhood and early adolescence.
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