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J.W. Freiberg holds a PhD from UCLA and a JD from Harvard Law School. A former assistant professor of sociology at Boston University, he served for 30 years as general counsel to more than a dozen of Boston’s mental health and social service agencies. Freiberg is the editor of Growing Up Lonely (papers from the 2018 Symposium on Childhood Loneliness) and the award-winning author of Four Seasons of Loneliness, as well as two earlier books, Critical Sociology: European Perspectives, and The French Press. He is a member of the MA state bar and the bar of the Supreme Court of the U.S.