Loneliness

O’Toole, Anita Werner; Welt, Sheila Rouslin

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Loneliness

Anita Werner O’Toole R.N., C.S., Ph.D.³ &
Sheila Rouslin Welt R.N., M.S.⁴

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Being alone in a situation may be a pleasant state, or an unpleasant one—or it may be unbearable. True loneliness—which is unbearable—is a clinical problem in psychiatric nursing practice, but it has received very little attention as such.

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Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA
Anita Werner O’Toole R.N., C.S., Ph.D. (Professor and Director of the Graduate Program)
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Sheila Rouslin Welt R.N., M.S.

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Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA
Anita Werner O’Toole R.N., C.S., Ph.D. (Professor and Director of the Graduate Program) (Professor and Director of the Graduate Program)
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Sheila Rouslin Welt R.N., M.S.

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O’Toole, A.W., Welt, S.R. (1994). Loneliness. In: O’Toole, A.W., Welt, S.R. (eds) Hildegard E. Peplau, Selected Works. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13441-0_19

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