Shyness & love : causes, consequences, and treatment /
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
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| Language: | English |
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University Press of America,
2013
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Table of Contents:
- SHYNESS & LOVE; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 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 ThomasThe 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" ConceptThe "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 SyndromeMost 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?
