Encounters with Loneliness: Only the Lonely. Edited by Arlene Kramer Richards, Lucille Spira, and Arthur A. Lynch. New York:  International Psychoanalytic Books, 2013,  xxii + 325 pp., $35.00 paperback.

Thus we have two kinds of loneliness. One which Frieda Fromm-Reichmann calls ordinary loneliness, a missing of others which is felt as such and thus presupposes the capacity for connectedness. And the other which involves the incapacity for connectedness and thus a missing of others which is so profound that the other, even in its absence, is not even understood or felt as such.

It is a striking fact that with a few notable exceptions (Winnicott 1958; Fromm-Reichmann 1959; Adler and Buie 1979; Willock, Bohm, and Curtis 2012) the experience of loneliness has not been explored in depth in the psychoanalytic literature. In common usage, loneliness is often understood either in sociological terms (cultural or social contexts for loneliness such