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Informationen zum Autor By Brian G. Gilmartin Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresForewordAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: IntroductionWhat Is Love-Shyness?Love-Shyness is a Serious ProblemViewing Someone to Love as a Cure-AllNormative Timetables of Self-RevelationWhy This Book?Love-Shyness Costs Society MoneyPlan of the BookPART ONE: THE BIOLOGICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF LOVE-SHYNESS Chapter 2: Love-Shyness and the Nature versus Nurture DebateThe Phenomenon of Inborn TemperamentThe Work of Hans J. EysenckLove-Shyness and the Inborn Anxiety ThresholdThe Importance of Social Stimulus ValueThe Work of Alexander ThomasThe Jerome Kagan WorkThe Importance of EnzymesSome Related Work on DepressionBiogenic AminesAnxiety DiseaseDopamineSchizophreniaObsessive-Compulsive DisordersConclusionsChapter 3: Societal Reactions and Elastic LimitsThe "Wish Bone Effect"The Sociological PerspectiveEvery Group Needs a DeviantThe "Apperceptive Mass" ConceptConclusionsPART TWO: THE RESEARCH STUDY AND THE DATA IT UNCOVEREDChapter 4: How the Information Was ObtainedWho is "Love-Shy?"Why Study Men Only?The "Felt Deprivation" ConceptThe "Closet Heterosexual" ConceptThe "Male Lesbian" ConceptThe Prevalence of Love-ShynessHow the Respondents Were ObtainedThe Importance of LOVE-ShynessSummaryChapter 5: Love-Shyness: Its Intrauterine BeginningsThe East German ResearchMy Own FindingsLove-Shys as Quiet BabiesChapter 6: Family CompositionBrothers and Sisters Quality of Parents' MarriagesConclusionsChapter 7: Love-Shyness and the All-Male Peer GroupThe Key Importance for Dating of Friendship NetworksThe Harlow ResearchThe Polish PeasantBullyingFrailness of Body BuildMasculine ToysThe Baseball, Basketball and Football SyndromeMost People Know What Is in Their Best InterestsCurrent Peer Group InteractionChapter 8: Beauty and the Love-ShyThe Need for BeautyThe Love-Shys' Own Esthetic AttributesBeauty and the Older Love-ShysCloning as a Future OptionAccentuating the PositiveSummaryPART THREE: THERAPY AND PREVENTION Chapter 9: Practice-Dating TherapyBehaviour Therapy ApproachesThe "Practice-Dating" ModelChapter 10: Some Therapeutic AdjunctsThe Nude Jacuzzi ExperienceTherapy Employing Sexual SurrogatesBibliotherapyWhy Not Simply Use Commercial Dating Services?Self-Image Psychology as a Therapeutic AdjunctSelf-Image TherapySome Rejoinders for Traditional PsychotherapistsChapter 11: Some Recommendations Concerning PreventionResearch on Gene SplicingBullyingThe Cruellest Bully of AllSome Recommendations Concerning DogsCoeducational Dormitories: Their LimitationsThe "Harrad" Dormitory OptionThe Psychic Healing of Important EnzymesThe Effect of Increasing Social InteractionThe High School CurriculumBallroom DancingReligionEncounter GroupsMight Fraternity Membership Help?Use of Autistic Adolescent GirlsChapter 12: Some Final ThoughtsA Different PhilosophyWhat Is NeededJudging a Person by Their ActionsElementary School ChildrenPostscript...
