CHAPTER IX. The irrational in sexual research

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents XI
4. Introduction XIII
5. The argument XVI
6. PART I. Data and anxiety
7. CHAPTER I. The quest for a scientific behavioral science 3
8. CHAPTER II. The distinctiveness of behavioral science 10
9. CHAPTER III. Reciprocities between observer and subject 18
10. CHAPTER IV. Psychological implications of the reciprocity between observer and subject 35
11. CHAPTER V. Countertransference in behavioral science 41
12. CHAPTER VI. Anxiety reactions to behavioral science data 47
13. PART II. Countertransference in behavioral science research
14. CHAPTER VII. Professional defenses 83
15. CHAPTER VIII. Sublimatory vs. defensive uses of methodology 97
16. CHAPTER IX. The irrational in sexual research 103
17. CHAPTER Χ. The relevance of primitive theories of behavior 121
18. PART III. The scientist and his science
19. CHAPTER XI. Culturally imposed distortions 129
20. CHAPTER XII. The scientist's social background 133
21. CHAPTER XIII. Human status and the self-relevance of research 148
22. CHAPTER XIV. The self-model: Somatotype and race 162
23. CHAPTER XV. The self-model: Sex 178
24. CHAPTER XVI. Age as a countertransference factor 192
25. CHAPTER XVII. Personality and the distortion of data 197
26. CHAPTER XVIII. Personality and its role in the study of groups and individuals 217
27. CHAPTER XIX. Elicited countertransference: The complementary role 234
28. PART IV. Distortion as the road to objectivity
29. CHAPTER XX. Eliciting as disturbance 255
30. CHAPTER XXI. The exploitation of disturbances produced by observation 266
31. CHAPTER XXII. The partition between subject and observer 275
32. CHAPTER XXIII. Partition theory and the nature of behavioral science data 293
33. CHAPTER XXIV. Partition, structure and explanation 320
34. Notes 329
35. Bibliography 345