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Four Seasons of Loneliness

A Lawyer's Case Stories

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Four Seasons of Loneliness

By: J. W. Freiberg
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
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What happens when loneliness engulfs us? How do we manage life when the absence of adequate connections becomes an excruciating hunger?

During his extraordinary decades-long career as an attorney, J. W. Freiberg consulted on hundreds of cases involving clients affected by chronic and debilitating loneliness. Here, in four adapted stories from his practice, he reveals how loneliness can impact us in every season of our lives. A fascinating cast of characters emerges: the traumatized teenager forever branded as a sexual predator, the man who spends the prime of his life in solitary confinement in Mao-era China, the truck driver whose self-education isolates him from his community, and the professor at the end of his life who has vast knowledge about the history of love but none to call his own.

Told through Freiberg's unique lens of a social psychologist turned lawyer, Four Seasons of Loneliness explores the fallout of losing the connections so fundamental to our survival and the ways in which we seek to find again the bonds that sustain us.

©2016 J. Walter Freiberg, III (P)2016 J. Walter Freiberg, III Law Professionals & Academics Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships
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The best non fiction book I've read in approx 18 months or so since reading Susan Cain's "Quiet". Deeply moving, fascinating and very easy to listen to -I found the narration perfect and not sure what other listeners issues were in this regard. Really cannot recommend this enough to anyone who has been touched by or is interested in themes of loneliness. I founs the four case studies are very touching in particular the first and the last.

Exceptional book beautifully written and narrated.

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J.W. Freiberg, has a keen eye and is extremely articulate about the human condition in the people he met and wrote these stories about. Nice moral threading throughout the book which was thought provoking which is always nice.
Mark Bramhall's voice excellent, really suited the prose.

Great listen

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