From Anxiety to Method in the Behavioral Sciences /George Devereux.

Devereux, George,

From Anxiety to Method in the Behavioral Sciences /George Devereux. - Reprint 2014. - Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (396 pages) - New Babylon ; 3 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction / The argument -- PART I. Data and anxiety -- CHAPTER I. The quest for a scientific behavioral science -- CHAPTER II. The distinctiveness of behavioral science -- CHAPTER III. Reciprocities between observer and subject -- CHAPTER IV. Psychological implications of the reciprocity between observer and subject -- CHAPTER V. Countertransference in behavioral science -- CHAPTER VI. Anxiety reactions to behavioral science data -- PART II. Countertransference in behavioral science research -- CHAPTER VII. Professional defenses -- CHAPTER VIII. Sublimatory vs. defensive uses of methodology -- CHAPTER IX. The irrational in sexual research -- CHAPTER [. The relevance of primitive theories of behavior -- PART III. The scientist and his science -- CHAPTER XI. Culturally imposed distortions -- CHAPTER XII. The scientist's social background -- CHAPTER XIII. Human status and the self-relevance of research -- CHAPTER XIV. The self-model: Somatotype and race -- CHAPTER XV. The self-model: Sex -- CHAPTER XVI. Age as a countertransference factor -- CHAPTER XVII. Personality and the distortion of data -- CHAPTER XVIII. Personality and its role in the study of groups and individuals -- CHAPTER XIX. Elicited countertransference: The complementary role -- PART IV. Distortion as the road to objectivity -- CHAPTER XX. Eliciting as disturbance -- CHAPTER XXI. The exploitation of disturbances produced by observation -- CHAPTER XXII. The partition between subject and observer -- CHAPTER XXIII. Partition theory and the nature of behavioral science data -- CHAPTER XXIV. Partition, structure and explanation -- Notes -- Bibliography Devereux, George --



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Ethnopsychology--Methodology.
Psychology--Methodology.
Social sciences--Methodology.


Electronic Books.

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