Lonely – Sources
p. 301: “the DSM“: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (Washington: American Psychiatric Association, 2004).
p. 301: “the pathologizing of everyday behaviour“: Herb Kutchins and Stuart Kirk, Making Us Crazy: DSM-The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders (London: Constable, 1999).
p. 303: “21 percent…had thought of suicide“: Ariel Stravynski and Richard Boyer, “Loneliness in Relation to Suicide Ideation and Parasuicide: A Population-Wide Study,” Suicide and Life-Threatening Behaviour, 31:1 (2001) 32-40.
p. 303: “the Samaritans“: Samaritans Emotional Support Services: Results of a Website Survey, 2007: http://www.samaritans.org/your_emotional_health/publications/website_user_survey.aspx.
p. 304: Marvin Kantor, Distancing: Avoidant Personality Disorder (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003).
p. 304: “personality disorder“: John Oldham, Andrew Skodol, and Donna Bender, Textbook of Personality Disorders (Washington: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2005).
p. 305: “personality assessment schedules“: These schedules are attached as appendices to Peter Tyrer, Personality Disorders: Diagnosis, Management, and Course (Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000). The schedule I cite in the text is Appendix 3: Quick Personality Assessment Schedule (PAS-Q).
p. 307: “loneliness as a ‘blessing‘”: Discussions that twin loneliness to growth and heightened meaning can be found at: Henry von Witzleben, “On Loneliness,” Psychiatry, 21 (1958) 37-44; Clark E. Moustakas, Loneliness (NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1961); Arthur Burton, “On the Nature of Loneliness,” American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 21:1 (1961) 34-39; and Ben Mijuskovic, “Loneliness: An Interdisciplinary Approach,” in The Anatomy of Loneliness. It was Burton who described loneliness as a “distinction” not available to all.
