Table of Contents

Foreword; Introduction; What is Loneliness?; Loneliness & the Lifecycle; Why Are We Lonely?; Coping with Loneliness; On Love & Loneliness; Marriage & the Family; Successful Marriages; Intimate Relationships: Growth & Development; Loneliness in Romantic Relations; Enriching Good Marriages & Fixing Bad Ones; Some Concluding Thoughts; Selected References; Index.

About the Author

Ami Rokach holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Purdue University. He is the Executive Editor of the Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, and is a clinical psychologist and a sex therapist who combines offering individual, couple and sex therapy with teaching and research. Ami is an associate professor and is teaching psychology at The Center for Academic Studies in Israel, and is also a member of the psychology departments at York University in Canada, and Walden University in the USA. His therapeutic and research interests include loneliness, sexuality, couple & sex therapy, anxiety and phobias, traumatic experiences and personal growth, stress management, and palliative care. After 35 years of doing psychology he is still intrigued by human nature, peoples suffering, and the real opportunity that we all have to grow, flourish, and reinvent ourselves despite obstacles and painful experiences.