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The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the Twenty-first Century: Jacqueline Olds, Richard S. Schwartz

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Are Americans becoming inadvertently lonelier? That is the thesis of "The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the Twenty-First Century, a thought-provoking, engagingly lucid book by two psychiatrists, that are married to each other. Building on their clinical experience and past studies, they see a spreading malaise of social disconnection, which the larger culture reinforces. They cite census statistics such as the dramatic rise in single-person households and new social surveys that show an increase in narcissism and a decrease in the number of meaningful conversations people report having with anyone. (via amazon.com)