Shyness & Love (eBook)

Causes, Consequences, and Treatment

Brian G. Gilmartin (Autor)

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2012 | 2nd Edition
348 Seiten
Upa (Verlag)
978-0-7618-6060-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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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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-both biomedical as well as situational-of "e;love-shyness"e; and the consequences for those afflicted with it. Gilmartin also discusses promising treatment modalities and what schools and communities can do to prevent severe love-shyness from developing in the first place. Shyness & Love examines the early family life as well as the peer group interactions of love-shy men. The book provides many statistical comparisons between the sampled love-shys and a comparison group of non-love-shy males of normal (but not superior) social self-confidence levels. These statistical comparisons allow for some informed speculations regarding the numerous interacting causes that underlie social phobia in informal, unstructured, heterosexual social situations. These statistical comparisons also provide the reader with some powerful suggestions regarding ways the American social structure (e.g., schools, family life, and communities) might be rearranged so that severe and intractable forms of love-shyness would never have an opportunity to develop in growing boys and teenagers in the first place. Since the publication of the first edition of this book, it has been determined that as many as forty percent of men afflicted with love-shyness are simultaneously comorbid for Asperger's Syndrome, also known as high-functioning autism. As many as half of all love-shy males are comorbid for the "e;male lesbian syndrome,"e; sometimes also referred to as the "e;passive, non-competitive male syndrome."e; This second edition contains a new foreword that presents the latest findings in love-shyness research. It is more concise than the original Shyness & Love, yet retains the most significant chapters.

Autor

Brian G. Gilmartin was born in Newark, New Jersey. He has taught at three campuses in the California State University system as well as at Virginia Tech, Auburn University, and East Tennessee State University. He retired from full-time teaching in 2010 after having taught at Montana State University-Northern for twenty-three years. His most recent book is How to Excel at Parenting: 33 Proven Success Strategies.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.11.2012
• Zusatzinfo: 3 Illustrations including: - 3 Charts.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Dating • Gender Studies • Masculinity • relationships • Romance • shyness • Sociology
• ISBN-10: 0-7618-6060-6 / 0761860606
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7618-6060-0 / 9780761860600