Solitude and Privacy : A Study of Social Isolation, its Causes and Therapy

ISBN-13: 9780415177979 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 181 str.

Paul Halmos; T. H. Marshall

Opis

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Some Metapsychological Considerations Preliminary to a Historical Survey of Gregariousness; Chapter 2 The History of Desocialisation, I (A) A Phylogenetic Process Illustrated by the Decline of the Choral Dance; Chapter 3 The History of Desocialisation, II (B) A Historical Process Illustrated by Some Changes which Have Taken Place Since the Feudal Era; Chapter 4 The Preponderance of the ‘Social-Cultural’ and ‘Social-Historical’ over the ‘Individual-Genetic’ the Concepts of ‘Direct’ and ‘Mediated’ Social Causation; Chapter 5 1The reader who is not accustomed to or is not interested in detailed, statistically documented research reports would do well to omit the reading of this Chapter in its entirety. Yet even to such a reader as this the perusal of the Summaries (pp. 91–92 and 101) and the reading of Section 3 of the Report (in this order) is recommended.Isolation and Anxiety Report on an Investigation into the Social Attitudes of College Students; Chapter 6 The Ideology of Privacy and Reserve; Chapter 7 Social Reform and Social Therapy; Chapter 8 Community Therapy: A Therapy of Isolation;

O autorze

Paul Halmos (Santa Clara University, California), Foreword by T. H. Marshall