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Section III: Brief Communications

Loneliness and the Four Life Positions

Pages 293-294
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article considers the connection between loneliness and life position. A sense of loneliness arising from a lack of sufficient social contact can influence a child's development and lead to feelings of unacceptability and not-OKness of self and/or others. The effects of loneliness can also be seen with elderly residents in nursing homes, for whom increased contact can result in improved thinking and understanding.

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Maggie Hunt-Cohn

Maggie Hunt-Cohn, M.S.W., lives and writes prose and poetry in Georgia, where she and her husband, Charles Cohn, are contentedly retired.