"loneliness is as monstrous as Fromm-Reichmann said it was"

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113176/science-loneliness-how-isolation-can-kill-you#

  The Lethality of LonelinessWe now know how it can ravage our body and brain

BY JUDITH SHULEVITZ

Her 1959 essay, “On Loneliness,” is considered a founding document in a fast-growing area of scientific research you might call loneliness studies. Over the past half-century, academic psychologists have largely abandoned psychoanalysis and made themselves over as biologists. And as they delve deeper into the workings of cells and nerves, they are confirming that loneliness is as monstrous as Fromm-Reichmann said it was. It has now been linked with a wide array of bodily ailments as well as the old mental ones.