From Anxiety to Method in the Behavioral Sciences

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Dedication Preface • Weston La Barre Contents Introduction The argument Part I: Data and anxiety I The quest for a scientific behavioral science Appendix to Chapter I: The relationship between logic and scientific work in ancient Greece II The distinctiveness of behavioral science III Reciprocities between observer and subject Appendix to Chapter III: The trauma of the unresponsiveness of matter IV Psychological implications of the reciprocity between observer and subject V Countertransference in behavioral science VI Anxiety reactions to behavioral science data Part II: Counter transfer enee in behavioral science research VII Professional defenses VIII Sublimatory vs. defensive uses of methodology IX The irrational in sexual research Appendix to Chapter IX: The problem of personal experiences Χ The relevance of primitive theories of behavior Part III: The scientist and his science XI Culturally imposed distortions XII The scientist’s social background XIII Human status and the self-relevance of research XIV The self-model: Somatotype and race XV The self-model: Sex XVI Age as a countertransference factor XVII Personality and the distortion of data XVIII Personality and its role in the study of groups and individuals XIX Elicited countertransference: The complementary role Part IV: Distortion as the road to objectivity XX Eliciting as disturbance XXI The exploitation of disturbances produced by observation XXII The partition between subject and observer XXIII Partition theory and the nature of behavioral science data XXIV Partition, structure and explanation Notes Bibliography