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    Four Seasons of Loneliness: A Lawyer's Case Stories
    Four Seasons of Loneliness: A Lawyer's Case Stories
    Four Seasons of Loneliness: A Lawyer's Case Stories
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    Four Seasons of Loneliness: A Lawyer's Case Stories

    Written 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
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthor's Republic
    Release dateDec 7, 2016
    ISBN9781518939952
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    J. W. Freiberg

    J. W. Freiberg holds a PhD from UCLA and a JD from Harvard Law School. He is the author of the critically acclaimed books Critical Sociology: European Perspectives and The French Press, as well as over thirty-five articles, book introductions, and other scholarly works on social psychology and legal issues. He is an active member of the Massachusetts state bar and the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. He serves as a justice of the peace in Massachusetts, where he resides with his wife.

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      A truly compelling story relating the value and inter relationship of human connection, and our lives. Loneliness as sensation as opposed to an emotion. A powerful deal with implications for our lives.