Loneliness: The Other Pandemic
In the late 1950s, toward the end of her life, psychiatrist Frieda Fromm Reichmann sat by a catatonic patient in the hospital. Inspired by an unexplainable hunch, she asked how lonely the patient was. The young woman raised her hand with her thumb extended and the rest of the fingers folded under. Dr. Fromm-Reichmann, an […]