Aleksandar Dimitrijević, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. He works as a lecturer at the International Psychoanalytic University and in private practice in Berlin. He has given lectures, seminars, university courses, and conference presentations throughout Europe and in the US. He is the author of many conceptual and empirical papers about attachment theory and research, psychoanalytic education, and psychoanalysis and the arts, some of which were translated into German, Hungarian, Italian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Turkish. He has also edited or co-edited eleven books or special journal issues, the most recent of which are Ferenczi’s Influence on Contemporary Psychoanalytic Traditions (with Gabriele Cassullo and Jay Frankel, 2018) and Silence and Silencing in Psychoanalysis (with Michael B. Buchholz, 2020).Prof. Dr. Michael B. Buchholz studied psychology and social sciences, fully trained as a psychoanalyst, training analyst in Göttingen (Germany), taught social psychology at International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) in Berlin until retirement in autumn 2020. His main interests are to combine psychoanalysis and the study of psychotherapeutic conversation, thus the application of conversation analysis as a method of microscopic observation applicable in social situations, including of violence. He has published more than 25 books and more than 300 papers on family therapy, treatment technique, supervision, conversation analysis, and violence.

‘The most intelligently planned and accomplished book of essays on a topic I have encountered—either in the field of psychology or the humanities—this is a work for everyone and deserves a broad readership. Comprehensive and creative, this study of loneliness and solitude is a treasure-house of ideas and a “must read”.’

• AcknowledgmentsAbout the editors and contributorsIntroductionPart I: Philosophy and cultureIntroduction to Part I1.The hidden sociality of the solitary subject. Phenomenological and psychoanalytical reflections on lonelinessJagna Brudzińska 2. ‘And live alone in the bee-loud glade’? Asceticism and the construction of solitudeColum Kenny3.Lone wolves’ loneliness – about a special variant of terrorismMichael B. Buchholz4. History of private self and solitudeAleksandar DimitrijevićPart II: Art and literatureIntroduction to Part II5. Musical facet of lonelinessHelga de la Motte-Haber6. Myth of the solitary artistAleksandar Dimitrijević7. Places of lonelinessKarin Dannecker8. Seven kinds of loneliness. Psychic pain in David Rabe’s play HurlyburlyDominic AngelochPart III: Developmental psychology and healthIntroduction to Part III9. The dual function of loneliness: a developmental perspectiveInge Seiffge-Krenke10. Loneliness and insecure attachmentAleksandar Dimitrijević11. Epidemiology of lonelinessEva M. Klein, Mareike Ernst, Manfred E. Beutel, and Elmar Brähler12. Loneliness and healthGamze Özçürümez Bilgili13. Loneliness and the brainGamze Özçürümez BilgiliPart IV: PsychoanalysisIntroduction to Part IV14. Loneliness in child analysis casesPatrizia Arfelli15. Landscapes of loneliness: engaging with Frieda Fromm-Reichmann’s pioneering workGail Hornstein16. Through the prism of being alone. A further dialogue between Donald Winnicott and Melanie KleinLesley Caldwell17. Traumatic aloneness in children with narcissistically preoccupied parentsJay Frankel18. The clinical rncounter with the lonely patient: Trauma and the Empty SelfCharles Ashbach19. Shame and its cover-up: the self-enclosed prison of isolationPeter Shabad20. Strengthening the human bond – Doing we is more important than “intervention”Michael B. BuchholzIndex

Aleksandar Dimitrijević, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. He works as a lecturer at the International Psychoanalytic University and in private practice in Berlin. He has given lectures, seminars, university courses, and conference presentations throughout Europe and in the US. He is the author of many conceptual and empirical papers about attachment theory and research, psychoanalytic education, and psychoanalysis and the arts, some of which were translated into German, Hungarian, Italian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Turkish. He has also edited or co-edited eleven books or special journal issues, the most recent of which are Ferenczi’s Influence on Contemporary Psychoanalytic Traditions (with Gabriele Cassullo and Jay Frankel, 2018) and Silence and Silencing in Psychoanalysis (with Michael B. Buchholz, 2020).Prof. Dr. Michael B. Buchholz studied psychology and social sciences, fully trained as a psychoanalyst, training analyst in Göttingen (Germany), taught social psychology at International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) in Berlin until retirement in autumn 2020. His main interests are to combine psychoanalysis and the study of psychotherapeutic conversation, thus the application of conversation analysis as a method of microscopic observation applicable in social situations, including of violence. He has published more than 25 books and more than 300 papers on family therapy, treatment technique, supervision, conversation analysis, and violence.

‘The most intelligently planned and accomplished book of essays on a topic I have encountered—either in the field of psychology or the humanities—this is a work for everyone and deserves a broad readership. Comprehensive and creative, this study of loneliness and solitude is a treasure-house of ideas and a “must read”.’

• AcknowledgmentsAbout the editors and contributorsIntroductionPart I: Philosophy and cultureIntroduction to Part I1.The hidden sociality of the solitary subject. Phenomenological and psychoanalytical reflections on lonelinessJagna Brudzińska 2. ‘And live alone in the bee-loud glade’? Asceticism and the construction of solitudeColum Kenny3.Lone wolves’ loneliness – about a special variant of terrorismMichael B. Buchholz4. History of private self and solitudeAleksandar DimitrijevićPart II: Art and literatureIntroduction to Part II5. Musical facet of lonelinessHelga de la Motte-Haber6. Myth of the solitary artistAleksandar Dimitrijević7. Places of lonelinessKarin Dannecker8. Seven kinds of loneliness. Psychic pain in David Rabe’s play HurlyburlyDominic AngelochPart III: Developmental psychology and healthIntroduction to Part III9. The dual function of loneliness: a developmental perspectiveInge Seiffge-Krenke10. Loneliness and insecure attachmentAleksandar Dimitrijević11. Epidemiology of lonelinessEva M. Klein, Mareike Ernst, Manfred E. Beutel, and Elmar Brähler12. Loneliness and healthGamze Özçürümez Bilgili13. Loneliness and the brainGamze Özçürümez BilgiliPart IV: PsychoanalysisIntroduction to Part IV14. Loneliness in child analysis casesPatrizia Arfelli15. Landscapes of loneliness: engaging with Frieda Fromm-Reichmann’s pioneering workGail Hornstein16. Through the prism of being alone. A further dialogue between Donald Winnicott and Melanie KleinLesley Caldwell17. Traumatic aloneness in children with narcissistically preoccupied parentsJay Frankel18. The clinical rncounter with the lonely patient: Trauma and the Empty SelfCharles Ashbach19. Shame and its cover-up: the self-enclosed prison of isolationPeter Shabad20. Strengthening the human bond – Doing we is more important than “intervention”Michael B. BuchholzIndex

Aleksandar Dimitrijević, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. He works as a lecturer at the International Psychoanalytic University and in private practice in Berlin. He has given lectures, seminars, university courses, and conference presentations throughout Europe and in the US. He is the author of many conceptual and empirical papers about attachment theory and research, psychoanalytic education, and psychoanalysis and the arts, some of which were translated into German, Hungarian, Italian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Turkish. He has also edited or co-edited eleven books or special journal issues, the most recent of which are Ferenczi’s Influence on Contemporary Psychoanalytic Traditions (with Gabriele Cassullo and Jay Frankel, 2018) and Silence and Silencing in Psychoanalysis (with Michael B. Buchholz, 2020).Prof. Dr. Michael B. Buchholz studied psychology and social sciences, fully trained as a psychoanalyst, training analyst in Göttingen (Germany), taught social psychology at International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) in Berlin until retirement in autumn 2020. His main interests are to combine psychoanalysis and the study of psychotherapeutic conversation, thus the application of conversation analysis as a method of microscopic observation applicable in social situations, including of violence. He has published more than 25 books and more than 300 papers on family therapy, treatment technique, supervision, conversation analysis, and violence.

‘The most intelligently planned and accomplished book of essays on a topic I have encountered—either in the field of psychology or the humanities—this is a work for everyone and deserves a broad readership. Comprehensive and creative, this study of loneliness and solitude is a treasure-house of ideas and a “must read”.’

• AcknowledgmentsAbout the editors and contributorsIntroductionPart I: Philosophy and cultureIntroduction to Part I1.The hidden sociality of the solitary subject. Phenomenological and psychoanalytical reflections on lonelinessJagna Brudzińska 2. ‘And live alone in the bee-loud glade’? Asceticism and the construction of solitudeColum Kenny3.Lone wolves’ loneliness – about a special variant of terrorismMichael B. Buchholz4. History of private self and solitudeAleksandar DimitrijevićPart II: Art and literatureIntroduction to Part II5. Musical facet of lonelinessHelga de la Motte-Haber6. Myth of the solitary artistAleksandar Dimitrijević7. Places of lonelinessKarin Dannecker8. Seven kinds of loneliness. Psychic pain in David Rabe’s play HurlyburlyDominic AngelochPart III: Developmental psychology and healthIntroduction to Part III9. The dual function of loneliness: a developmental perspectiveInge Seiffge-Krenke10. Loneliness and insecure attachmentAleksandar Dimitrijević11. Epidemiology of lonelinessEva M. Klein, Mareike Ernst, Manfred E. Beutel, and Elmar Brähler12. Loneliness and healthGamze Özçürümez Bilgili13. Loneliness and the brainGamze Özçürümez BilgiliPart IV: PsychoanalysisIntroduction to Part IV14. Loneliness in child analysis casesPatrizia Arfelli15. Landscapes of loneliness: engaging with Frieda Fromm-Reichmann’s pioneering workGail Hornstein16. Through the prism of being alone. A further dialogue between Donald Winnicott and Melanie KleinLesley Caldwell17. Traumatic aloneness in children with narcissistically preoccupied parentsJay Frankel18. The clinical rncounter with the lonely patient: Trauma and the Empty SelfCharles Ashbach19. Shame and its cover-up: the self-enclosed prison of isolationPeter Shabad20. Strengthening the human bond – Doing we is more important than “intervention”Michael B. BuchholzIndex