Dr.Zimbardo+Shyness+Clinic

= = toc =__**History** __= In 1975 Philip Zimbardo set up an experiment called the shyness clinic, it was set up in jordan hall in his laboratory. the participants consisted of students from stanford university. The groups of participants consisted of 6-8 people and it lasted for a 8 week period. Along with Zimbardo, Meg Marnell was zimbardos co-therapist. After many years of success with helping people increase social skills the program was moved out to the staff of stanford and then the public. Rochelle kramer worked alongside meg marnell on the public program.

 The clinic became know as the palo alto shyness clinic in 1982 and was now under the guidance of Dr. Lynee Henderson, Dr.Carlo Piccione. In 1994 the clinic had moved to portola valley, and since then Dr.Henderson is still the director of it in Menlo Park where Philip zimbardo is the co-director of the clinic.

==__**Publications surrounding this topic** __== In 1998 Dr.Philip G. zimbardo and Dr. Lynne Henderson published the report on the the shame and anger in chronic shyness. 69 men and 45 women who have been part of the shyness clinic already were evaluated using the paranoia scale of the MMPI for resentment, and anger was evaluated using three MMPI scales: Psychopathic deviance, anger and over controlled hostility. these scales were correlated with shame scales; the personal feelings questionnaire and the test of self-conscious affect. To predict resentment self abasement was high, to predict anger passive aggression was shown to be high and the participants who were already diagnosed with avoidant personality disorder scored very high in other blaming and shame scales and questionnaires.

The other significant report published by the director team of the shyness clinic Dr.Lynne Henderson, Dr.Philip G.Zimbardo and assisted by Tina A.St.Lorant. This study titled comorbidity in chronic shyness, looks at the other disorders associated with chronic shyness mainly focusing on social phobia which would be diagnose in anxiety clinics. The participants analysised consisted of 114 people seeking treatment from the palo alto clinic between the years 1991 and 1997. The participants were screened using a variety of scales(see report for details of scales used) to screen for any dsm diagnosis. The research team found the anxiety disorders(31.8%) were recorded highest when testing the participants alongside dysthymia(35.4%). Interestingly enough substance abuse and major depression scored as low as 1.2%, the team came to a conclusion that there is an overlap in symptoms of social phobia and chronic shyness but certain prominent characteristics were not found suggesting a need for more research.