Shyness, how normal behavior became a sickness, Christopher Lane
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Shyness, how normal behavior became a sickness, Christopher Lane
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-247) and index
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illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Shyness
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
154689037
Responsibility statement
Christopher Lane
Sub title
how normal behavior became a sickness
Summary
Discusses the effects of expanding the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)'s fourth edition on the psychiatric community, pharmaceutical companies, and the nation
Table Of Contents
The hundred years' war over anxiety -- The diagnostic battles: emotions become pathologies -- A decisive victory: shyness becomes an illness -- Direct to consumer: now sell the disease! -- Rebound syndrome: when drug treatments fail -- A backlash forms: Prozac nation rebels -- Fear of others in an anxious age
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