Human isolation

In human context, isolation may refer to:

• Remote and isolated community, a community that lacks the transportation links that would otherwise be considered normal
• Solitude, a state of seclusion or isolation, i.e., lack of contact with people
• Isolation (psychology), a defence mechanism in psychoanalytic theory first proposed by Sigmund Freud
• Uncontacted tribes, people in isolation from the outside world
• Isolation effect or Von Restorff effect, a psychological effect of distinctive items more easily 'remembered'
• Incarceration, forcible confinement with a variety of denied freedoms under the authority of the state
  • Isolation tank, a lightless, soundproof tank inside which subjects float in salt water at skin temperature
  • Solitary confinement, a special form of imprisonment in which a prisoner is isolated from any human contact
• Social isolation

See also

• Isolation (disambiguation)