Sink Christopher A. Sink & Stern Julian Stern 
Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude, Silence and Loneliness [PDF ebook] 

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude, Silence and Loneliness is the first major account integrating research on solitude, silence and loneliness from across academic disciplines and across the lifespan. The editors explore how being alone in its different forms, positive and negative, as solitude, silence and loneliness is learned and developed, and how it is experienced in childhood and youth, adulthood and old age. Philosophical, psychological, historical, cultural and religious issues are addressed by distinguished scholars from Europe, North and Latin America, and Asia.