Toward an anthropology of loneliness

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2395366
AutoresC Ozawa-De Silva (0000-0003-3068-1938, Emory University, autor de correspondencia), Michelle Anne Parsons (0000-0003-2858-1014, Emory University), Michelle Parsons (Emory University)
Año2020
Volumen57
Número5
Páginas613-622
Fecha de publicación2020-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTranscultural Psychiatric Research Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0041-1108 • E-ISSN: 0315-4386
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1363461520961627
PMID33076789
OpenAlexW3093171434
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas41
Referencias citadas25

Loneliness, which is increasingly recognized as a public health concern, is not just a matter of individual psychology or cognition, but inherently social, cultural, and relational. It is an affective, subjective, and intersubjective reality, distinct from the physical reality of social isolation. This introduction to the thematic issues of Transcultural Psychiatry argues that the social and cultural nature of loneliness is an important area of study that requires interdisciplinary approaches and can particularly benefit from ethnography. Contributors explore concepts and expressions of loneliness in Japan, Kenya, Mexico, North Africa, Palestine, Russia, and the US. Cross-cutting themes include the importance of cultural expectations, practice, place, and recognition in the experience of loneliness. Loneliness is a culturally shaped experience that is problematized and medicalized across cultures, but it may also be fundamental to the human condition

Cultural anthropology · Ethnography · Isolation (microbiology · Loneliness · Psychotherapist · Social isolation · Sociology · Anthropology · Community Health and Development · Health disparities and outcomes · Mental Health Treatment and Access · Psychology · Social Psychology