Madison Books
Pages: 228
Trim: 5¾ x 9
978-1-56833-269-7 • Paperback • April 2014 • $15.95 • (£11.99)
Dr. Brian Gilmartin, a professor of Sociology at East Tennessee State University, has worked with the love-shy for more than ten years. He is also the author of Shyness and Love: Causes, Consequences and Treatment and How to Excel at Parenting: 33 Proven Success Strategies.
Foreword
1. The Problem of Love-Shyness
2. The Biological Bases of Shyness
3. Societal Reactions and Elastic Limits
4. How the Information was Obtained
5. Intrauterine Antecedents
6. Family Composition
7. Parenting Practices and Love-Shyness
8. How the All-Male Peer Group Creates Shy Men
9. Preadolescent Love and Infatuation
10. Sex and the Love-Shy
11. Obsessions, Compulsions, and Interpersonal Anxiety
12. Medical Symptoms and Sensitivities
13. Therapy
14. Some Recommendations Concerning Careers for Love-Shys
15. Some Final Thoughts on Prevention
Appendix 1. The Survey of Heterosexual Interactions
Appendix 2. The Gilmartin Love-Shy Scale
Bibliography
Index
Dr. Gilmartin grabs the shy by the hand and leads interference at bulldozing down the papier-mâché monsters that plague the shy person as he or she fights to survive in a seemingly social world of happy, self-confident ‘party’ people.
— E. Michael Gutman, President, Florida Psychological Society