Modern fiction keeps returning to lonely characters because isolation now hides inside relationships, workplaces and digital ...

“Loneliness has followed me my whole life,” says Robert De Niro’s character, Travis Bickle, in Taxi Driver. “Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There’s no escape. I’m God’s ...

The Chicago-based creative explores loneliness, alienation and identity in his episodic feature that had its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. By Georg Szalai Global ...

Loneliness is defined as “a distressing feeling that accompanies the perception that one’s social needs are not being met by the quantity or especially the quality of one’s social relationships.” ...

Research suggests loneliness and depression can reinforce each other, while social isolation has a more limited effect.

“Loneliness is grief, distended,” writes The New Yorker, condensing timelessness, placelessness, circumstancelessness of feeling. In all the poetical gravity of these lines, to call loneliness an ...

The latest observer to sound the alarm about workplace loneliness is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The organization on Tuesday published a commentary calling on employers to take action to identify ...

Not all loneliness is the same—new research shows that emotional loneliness is more harmful than social loneliness, affecting mental health and even increasing mortality risk. Understanding this ...