Shyness : how normal behavior became a sickness

Shyness : how normal behavior became a sickness / Christopher Lane.

Author/creator	Lane, Christopher, 1966-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007.
Description	263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. Psychiatry--United States --History. Mental illness--Diagnosis --History. Mental illness--Classification --History. Bashfulness.

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.
Abstract	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.
Local note	Little-351553--305131037762
Local note	Little-354997--305131034560V
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-247) and index.
LCCN	2007925003
ISBN	9780300124460 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	0300124465 (hbk. : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	BF575.B3 L35 2007	✔ Available	Place Hold