Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- EDITORIAL FOREWORD BY MARK LETTERI -- PREFACE -- ONE Introduction -- 1. Philosophical Anthropology and Psychology -- 2. SCRAM: Five American Social Illnesses -- 3. Loneliness: Conceptualizations and Classifications -- 4. Humanism -- 5. Personality Abnormalities: Definitions and Divisions -- 6. Personality Paradigms: Categorical and Dimensional -- TWO States of Aloneness: Notions and Numbers -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Loneliness and Aloneliness -- 3. Loneliness: Alonism and Lonism -- 4. Solitude -- 5. Reclusion -- 6. Seclusion -- 7. Isolation -- 8. Desolation -- 9. Solipsism -- THREE Loneliness: Definitions, Divisions, and Properties -- 1. An Affliction Pedestrian and Profound -- 2. A Negative Aloneness -- 3. An Absence of Pleasure and Presence of Pain -- 4. A Diversified Ill and Illness -- 5. The Lack of Intimate Unions -- 6. Lack of Personations -- 7. Panpsychism and Animism -- 8. Social Provisions and Benevolence -- 9. Person and Species, Atomism and Monism -- 10. The Dionysian and Apollonian Archetypes -- 11. Intimacy: Needs and Metaneeds -- 12. Unwanted Oneliness -- 13. Oneliness as Hell -- 14. Cognitive Discrepancy and Social Needs Models -- 15. Duration and Depth of Loneliness -- FOUR Loneliness: Forms and Modalities -- 1. Introduction -- 2. An Alternate Classification -- 3. Spatial Modalities -- 4. Loneliness Modalities -- FIVE Loneliness: The Unwanted Absence of Meaning/Intimacy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Intimacy: Form and Content -- 3. Intimacy and Motivations -- 4. Relationships, Social Exchange Theory, and SCRAM -- 5. Social Exchange Theory and Intimacy -- 6. Equity Theory and Relationships -- 7. Relationships: Equality and Equity -- 8. The Equity of Justice and Love -- 9. Love, Justice, and Loneliness -- SIX Love: The Paradigm of Meaning/Intimacy -- 1. Introduction.

2. Love, Philosophy, and Science -- 3. The Supreme Human and Divine Power -- 4. Love and Hatred -- 5. The Passions and the Paragon of Passion -- 6. The Art of the Heart and the Master Art of Life -- 7. Love: Deliverance from Loneliness -- 8. The Risk of Loving and Being Loved -- 9. Love and Death -- 10. The Ultimate in (Inter)Subjectivity -- 11. A World of Mystery and Singularity -- 12. The Fear of Love and of Subjects Becoming Objects -- 13. The Intimate World of Persons -- 14. The Most Unifying and Enlightening Cognition -- 15. Types of Love and Virtue -- SEVEN Intimacy: Classifications -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Private and Public -- 3. Altruism versus Greed -- 4. Greed versus Generosity -- 5. Generosity and Loneliness -- 6. Pseudo-Altruism and Egoism -- 7. Intimacy: Descriptive and Prescriptive -- 8. Intimacy and Gender -- 9. Loneliness and Gender -- 10. Personality Orientations and Loneliness -- 11. Intimacy: Horizontal and Vertical, Said and Unsaid, Having and Be-Having -- EIGHT Intimacy and Social Networks -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Connection Continuum -- 3. Connection Benefits -- 4. Loneliness: Lack of Social Network Density -- 5. The Decline of American Social Support Systems -- 6. The Diminution of American Friendship -- 7. The Increase in Imitation Intimacy -- 8. The Spurious Intimacy of Addictions -- NINE Loneliness and Freedom -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Self-Determinism -- 3. Determinism -- 4. Indeterminism -- 5. The Existence of Freedom: Arguments Pro and Con -- 6. Determinism: Soft (Freedom) and Hard (Necessitarianism) -- 7. Freedom and Authenticity -- 8. Determinism: Classifications -- 9. (In)Determinism and Loneliness -- 10. Freedom and Loneliness: A Sartrean Interpretation -- 11. Loneliness and Volition -- TEN Loneliness: Revelation and Research -- 1. Admitting and Altering Loneliness -- 2. Alteration of Personal Traits.

3. Altering the Traits of the Lonely -- 4. Altering Diverse Types of Loneliness -- 5. Loneliness and Mental Illness -- 6. Loneliness and the Mental Trait Disorders of Personality -- 7. Loneliness in America -- 8. Resistance to Admitting Loneliness -- 9. The Inadmissibility of Loneliness by the Clinically Ill -- 10. The Inadmissibility of Loneliness by Clinicians -- 11. Opponents of the Study of Loneliness: Objectivismand Scientism -- 12. Proponents of the Study of Loneliness: Phenomenology and Existentialism -- 13. Loneliness in Psychology, Literature, and Philosophy -- 14. Conclusion -- WORKS CITED -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- NAME INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX.