From Anxiety to Method in the Behavioral Sciences

George Devereux

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From Anxiety to Method in the Behavioral Sciences

George Devereux
With contributions by: Weston La Barre

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1967

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Introduction George Devereux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	XIII
The argument Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	XVI
PART I. Data and anxiety
CHAPTER I. The quest for a scientific behavioral science Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
CHAPTER II. The distinctiveness of behavioral science Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	10
CHAPTER III. Reciprocities between observer and subject Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	18
CHAPTER IV. Psychological implications of the reciprocity between observer and subject Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	35
CHAPTER V. Countertransference in behavioral science Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	41
CHAPTER VI. Anxiety reactions to behavioral science data Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	47
PART II. Countertransference in behavioral science research
CHAPTER VII. Professional defenses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
CHAPTER VIII. Sublimatory vs. defensive uses of methodology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
CHAPTER IX. The irrational in sexual research Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
CHAPTER Χ. The relevance of primitive theories of behavior Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	121
PART III. The scientist and his science
CHAPTER XI. Culturally imposed distortions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	129
CHAPTER XII. The scientist's social background Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	133
CHAPTER XIII. Human status and the self-relevance of research Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	148
CHAPTER XIV. The self-model: Somatotype and race Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	162
CHAPTER XV. The self-model: Sex Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	178
CHAPTER XVI. Age as a countertransference factor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	192
CHAPTER XVII. Personality and the distortion of data Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	197
CHAPTER XVIII. Personality and its role in the study of groups and individuals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	217
CHAPTER XIX. Elicited countertransference: The complementary role Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	234
PART IV. Distortion as the road to objectivity
CHAPTER XX. Eliciting as disturbance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	255
CHAPTER XXI. The exploitation of disturbances produced by observation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	266
CHAPTER XXII. The partition between subject and observer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	275
CHAPTER XXIII. Partition theory and the nature of behavioral science data Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	293
CHAPTER XXIV. Partition, structure and explanation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	320
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	329
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	345

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eBook published on:

July 24, 2014

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9783111667317

Hardcover published on:

April 1, 1967

Hardcover ISBN:

9783111282596

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Reprint 2014

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20

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376

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111667317

eBook ISBN: 9783111667317

Hardcover ISBN: 9783111282596

Keywords for this book

Psychology -- Methodology; Ethnopsychology -- Methodology; Social sciences -- Methodology

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