Shyness & love : causes, consequences, and treatment

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?