The Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude, Silence and Loneliness

Foreword / Olivia Sagan -- Introduction: Personhood, alone and together / Julian Stern -- The philosophy of solitude / Piotr Domeracki -- Schooling and solitude / Helen Lees -- Solitude practices in the context of Catholic education / Michael Buchanan -- Solitude in nature / Amanda Fulford -- Working solitude : the value of wilderness time of leaders and would-be leaders / David Weir -- The politics of solitude / Henrieta Șerban and Aleksander Cywinski -- The art, music and literature of solitude / Julian Stern -- Solitude as a spiritual practice : perspectives from the Chinese tradition / Wong Ping Ho -- Solitude and religion : the space between / Gilliam Simpson -- Children and silence / Richard Cleveland -- Multifaceted silences in adolescence : implications for social cognition and mental health / Sandra Bosacki -- Creativity, concentration and silence / Teresa Olearczyk -- Silence and sexuality in school settings : a transnational perspective / Helen Sauntson and Rodrigo Borba -- Silence and educational places and spaces / Eva Alerby -- The quiet professional : on being alone/together in higher education / Anne Pirrie and Nini Fang -- Consciousness and loneliness / Ben Lazare Mijusovic -- The psychological implications of loneliness / Christopher A. Sink -- Loneliness in childhood / Sivan George-Levi, Tomer Schmidt-Barad and Malka Margalit -- Adult loneliness / Elzbieta Dubas -- The morality of loneliness / Jaroslaw Horowski -- Loneliness and dementia : the role of communication / Alison Wray -- Loneliness and care of the elderly / Rafal Iwanski -- Mortality and loneliness : towards less-lonely grief / Sarah James and Piotr Krakowiak -- Conclusion: Lifelong learning of aloneness / Julian Stern.