Brian G. Gilmartin

Shyness & Love

Causes, Consequences, and Treatment

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Produktbeschreibung

Shyness & Love covers the only major study conducted to date on social anxiety disorder as it is manifested in informal, unstructured, male/female dating and courtship situations. It focuses on the causes of "love-shyness" and the consequences for those afflicted with it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• 2nd Edition
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780761865575
• ISBN-10: 0761865578
• Artikelnr.: 42195199

Autorenporträt

By Brian G. Gilmartin

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Foreword Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction What Is
Love-Shyness? Love-Shyness is a Serious Problem Viewing Someone to Love as
a Cure-All Normative Timetables of Self-Revelation Why This Book?
Love-Shyness Costs Society Money Plan of the Book PART ONE: THE BIOLOGICAL
UNDERPINNINGS OF LOVE-SHYNESS Chapter 2: Love-Shyness and the Nature versus
Nurture Debate The Phenomenon of Inborn Temperament The Work of Hans J.
Eysenck Love-Shyness and the Inborn Anxiety Threshold The Importance of
Social Stimulus Value The Work of Alexander Thomas The Jerome Kagan Work
The Importance of Enzymes Some Related Work on Depression Biogenic Amines
Anxiety Disease Dopamine Schizophrenia Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
Conclusions Chapter 3: Societal Reactions and Elastic Limits The "Wish Bone
Effect" The Sociological Perspective Every Group Needs a Deviant The
"Apperceptive Mass" Concept Conclusions PART TWO: THE RESEARCH STUDY AND
THE DATA IT UNCOVERED Chapter 4: How the Information Was Obtained Who is
"Love-Shy?" Why Study Men Only? The "Felt Deprivation" Concept The "Closet
Heterosexual" Concept The "Male Lesbian" Concept The Prevalence of
Love-Shyness How the Respondents Were Obtained The Importance of
LOVE-Shyness Summary Chapter 5: Love-Shyness: Its Intrauterine Beginnings
The East German Research My Own Findings Love-Shys as Quiet Babies Chapter
6: Family Composition Brothers and Sisters Quality of Parents' Marriages
Conclusions Chapter 7: Love-Shyness and the All-Male Peer Group The Key
Importance for Dating of Friendship Networks The Harlow Research The Polish
Peasant Bullying Frailness of Body Build Masculine Toys The Baseball,
Basketball and Football Syndrome Most People Know What Is in Their Best
Interests Current Peer Group Interaction Chapter 8: Beauty and the Love-Shy
The Need for Beauty The Love-Shys' Own Esthetic Attributes Beauty and the
Older Love-Shys Cloning as a Future Option Accentuating the Positive
Summary PART THREE: THERAPY AND PREVENTION Chapter 9: Practice-Dating
Therapy Behaviour Therapy Approaches The "Practice-Dating" Model Chapter
10: Some Therapeutic Adjuncts The Nude Jacuzzi Experience Therapy Employing
Sexual Surrogates Bibliotherapy Why Not Simply Use Commercial Dating
Services? Self-Image Psychology as a Therapeutic Adjunct Self-Image Therapy
Some Rejoinders for Traditional Psychotherapists Chapter 11: Some
Recommendations Concerning Prevention Research on Gene Splicing Bullying
The Cruellest Bully of All Some Recommendations Concerning Dogs
Coeducational Dormitories: Their Limitations The "Harrad" Dormitory Option
The Psychic Healing of Important Enzymes The Effect of Increasing Social
Interaction The High School Curriculum Ballroom Dancing Religion Encounter
Groups Might Fraternity Membership Help? Use of Autistic Adolescent Girls
Chapter 12: Some Final Thoughts A Different Philosophy What Is Needed
Judging a Person by Their Actions Elementary School Children Postscript