I absolutely loved this book. Storr's opinion that Solitude is indispensable to the human experience reverberates throughout the entire book. Though I learned quite a few things I have to admit that—and I'm clearly biased here—reading this book mostly confirmed my existing views; being rather solitary myself, I felt my views being confirmed and my person being validated.

Quite academic in style, this books is full of references to related/prior work and empirical data. This helps support Storr's views, though as a whole the book  clearly captures Storr's personal/subjective theory on the importance of Solitude. Being a psychology book, it contains many references to pathological situations I could give content warnings for, but they all felt rather minor to me (perhaps because the text is rather academic it was easier to keep some distance). Exception to that is certainly Chapter 4 on imprisonment and solitude, which I found to be pretty graphic, but I think one could skip reading it without hindering comprehension of the remainder of the book, if necessary.