In My TBR Stack:

Surrounded by Others and Yet So Alone: A Lawyer's Case Stories of Love, Loneliness, and Litigation
by J.W. Freiberg
Philia Books, Ltd.
Trade Paperback

From the book publicity:

A new collection of case stories from "the Oliver Sacks of law." 

In this follow-up to his acclaimed book, Four Seasons of Loneliness (winner of the 2017 Independent Publishers Gold Prize as the best book of the year in Psychology / Mental Health), social psychologist turned lawyer J. W. Freiberg continues to explore chronic loneliness, one of modern society's most serious public health crises. 

In Surrounded by Others and Yet So Alone, he again draws from his thirty-year legal career to present five unique tales. While Four Seasons of Loneliness studied the devastation caused by social isolation, here Freiberg explores the impact of faulty connections in failing relationships. But don't expect to be lectured on the topic; you will find yourself reading a collection of deeply human stories. And that's a good thing, because Freiberg is a master storyteller. 

In My TBR Stack:

Four Seasons of Loneliness: A Lawyer's Case Stories
by J. W. Freiberg
Philia Books
Trade Paperback

From the author's website:

What happens when loneliness engulfs us? How do we manage life when the absence of adequate connections becomes an excruciating hunger?

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 fallout of losing the connections so fundamental to our survival and the ways in which we seek to find again the bonds that sustain us.