"The problem is not that I am single and likely to stay single," confided Charlotte Bronte, "it is that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely." Psychoanalyst Frieda Fromm-Reichmann is best known
― or rather unknown
―as the "Dr. Fried" of an erstwhile patient's autobiographical
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. Her thoughts on
The Science of Loneliness merit our consideration in an age in which we increasingly occupy ourselves with trivial pursuits to escape our essential loneliness.
