Eugene C. Kennedy
"One of the best known and most widely read Ameri- can Catholic authors, Eugene Kennedy successfully describes and explores feelings of loneliness as signs of the meaning of man. Rather than a merely negative, frustrating feeling, loneliness can be a clue to who we are, to our needs and our goals. Cor- rectly, Kennedy points out that loneliness is the ex- perience of those who have tasted love.

"After an opening chapter that offers a beautiful description of loneliness, the Maryknoll psy- chologist discusses loneliness in relation to sex, to institutions and to the experience of being alone, and offers some suggestions on how to handle loneli- ness. Convincingly arguing that connected with the psychological implications of loneliness are re- ligious dimensions, Kennedy claims that without loneliness religion would have little significance.... Father Kennedy believes that the solution to the problem of loneliness is not only the story of men and women working out their lives but of working out their salvation."