ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the isolation of prisoners in jails, of monks in monasteries or hermits, of remote tribes isolated by geography or by politics, but civilized man. It also provides an up-to-date and comprehensive summary of the state of has looked more on isolation and modern knowledge in this difficult and challenging topic. Professor Haggard's sympathetic account of the Norwegian isolated single farm showed us that there are isolation situations in which man, with his surprising resiliency of physique and of personality, can adapt. Haggard's research illustrates the use of unobstrusive measures with a population accustomed to isolation for generations and more or less adequately adapted to their isolation as a way of life, either preferring it or being unfamiliar with alternative modes of existence. Perhaps research on the effects of isolation on man, through the different approaches of different scientists from different countries and trained in different disciplines, could set an example of an imitable transnational research effort.
