{"product_id":"who-profits-from-your-loneliness-a-psychiatrists-investigation-into-the-industry-that-manufactured-an-epidemic-9798196537097","title":"Who Profits from Your Loneliness?: A Psychiatrist's Investigation Into the Industry That Manufactured an Epidemic","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Dawny J. Mathew\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Social Psychology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou are not broken. You are a market.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery time you order food to avoid eating alone, pay for a streaming service to fill the silence, swipe on a dating app that never quite works, or talk to an AI just to feel heard - \u003cb\u003esomeone is getting rich.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the Loneliness Economy. And it is worth trillions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a practising consultant psychiatrist, the author has spent years watching patients fail treatment after treatment - not because the medicine was wrong, but because no one ever asked the question that would have changed everything: \u003ci\u003eDo you have people?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this explosive investigation, medicine meets economics to reveal the hidden architecture of modern isolation - how corporations, platforms, and entire industries have not only profited from your loneliness, but \u003cb\u003equietly engineered it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou will discover: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Algorithm\u003c\/b\u003e - How social media was designed to keep you just lonely enough to keep scrolling, and the internal research that proves it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Dating App Trap\u003c\/b\u003e - Why finding love is terrible for business, and how platforms are built to keep you single and subscribed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRent-a-Family\u003c\/b\u003e - The booming industry of hired fathers, stand-in friends, and professional mourners - where loyalty lasts exactly as long as the hourly rate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Co-Living Lie\u003c\/b\u003e - How tech-driven housing startups charge thousands for a managed simulation of community they can never actually deliver\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBio-Capitalism\u003c\/b\u003e - How data brokers and insurers now score your isolation, turning your loneliness into a pre-existing condition on your premium\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAlgorithms of Mourning\u003c\/b\u003e - The ghostbot industry that resurrects the dead via AI, and why the market profits from grief it will not let complete\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Neuroscience\u003c\/b\u003e - What loneliness does to the brain, the body, and the nervous system - in clinical, measurable, irreversible terms that medicine has been too slow to act on\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on thirty years of social neuroscience, landmark research in urban planning, behavioural economics, and the author's own clinical experience across thousands of consulting room encounters, \u003ci\u003eThe Loneliness Economy\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive account of how human disconnection became the defining business model of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this is not a book that ends in despair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a wake-up call - and a roadmap. Because community was not lost. \u003cb\u003eIt was demolished to make room for a market.\u003c\/b\u003e And what was demolished can be rebuilt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLoneliness is not a personal failure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a business model.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is time to stop paying for it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891693011095,"sku":"9798196537097","price":948.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798196537097.webp?v=1781184525","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/who-profits-from-your-loneliness-a-psychiatrists-investigation-into-the-industry-that-manufactured-an-epidemic-9798196537097","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}