| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 149 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
New social formations
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New social formations.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Technology, character, and personality -- Technology and stress -- Cultural and psychological conflict -- Culture and the neurotic need for affection and for power -- Compulsive and impulsive disorders -- Narcissism and depression -- Paranoia and schizophrenia -- Shades of loneliness. |
| Summary |
In this incisive and controversial book, Richard Stivers rejects genetic explanations of psychological problems, arguing instead that the very organization of technological societies is behind the pervasive experience of loneliness. In its extreme form, loneliness assumes pathological dimensions in neurosis and schizophrenia, which reflect the contradiction between power and meaninglessness that characterizes modern life. Loneliness, in its many manifestations, seems to be the price we must pay for living in a technological world. Yet nurturing family, friend, and community ties can mitigate i. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Information society.
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Information society. |
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Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
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Technological innovations -- Social aspects. |
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Personality change.
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Personality change. |
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Interpersonal relations.
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Interpersonal relations. |
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Loneliness.
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Loneliness. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stivers, Richard. Shades of loneliness. Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2004 (DLC) 2003020758 (OCoLC)53131297 |
| ISBN |
1417503599 (electronic book) |
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9781417503599 (electronic book) |
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0742530027 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780742530027 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0742530035 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780742530034 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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