Loneliness In James Lynch's The Broken Heart

In his book, The Broken Heart: The Medical Consequences of Loneliness, James Lynch (1977) argued that loneliness also makes people susceptible to serious illness and promotes overuse of medical services. Lynch provided provocative evidence in behalf of his thesis, but it was mostly based on people who were socially isolated and, from our perspective, these individuals need not necessarily be lonely. Rubenstein and Shaver (1980) report a strong relationship between loneliness and a checklist of psychosomatic symptoms such as headaches, poor appetite and feeling tired. However, this checklist combines medical symptoms with cognitive problems such worrying and feelings of self worth.
Brennan and Auslander (1979) made a study on the link between