Four Seasons of Loneliness: A Lawyer's Case Stories
Written by J. W. Freiberg
Narrated by Mark Bramhall
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About this audiobook
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
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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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A 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.