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LONELINESS: A SOURCEBOOK OF CURRENT THEORY, RESEARCH AND THERAPY Anne Peplau and Daniel Perlman (Eds) New York: John Wiley and Sons, A Wiley - Interscience Publication, 1982, 430 pages.
Peplau and Perlman, as editors of and contributing authors to Loneliness: A Sourcebook of Current Theory, Research and Therapy, have accomplished a feat which eludes many authors. They have successfully combined scholarly treatment of a complicated subject with readability. Their upto-date sourcebook on loneliness is a valuable resource for clinicians and students in any of the human behavioral and social sciences.
Psychiatric nurses and nurses working with the elderly will find it particularly helpful in designing strategies for intervention.
Among the 35 contributors to the 22 chapters are eminent psychologists and sociologists, including both researchers and practitioners. Peplau and Perlman are the authors of the first chapter, "Perspectives on Loneliness," which provides a very well...