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Shyness : how normal behavior became a sickness / Christopher Lane.
- Title
- Shyness : how normal behavior became a sickness / Christopher Lane.
- Author
- Lane, Christopher, 1966-
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | BF575.B3 L35 2007 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 263 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- 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.
- Subject
- American Psychiatric Association
- Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
- Psychiatry > trends
- Mental Disorders > diagnosis
- Shyness
- Psychiatry > United States > History
- Mental illness > Diagnosis > History
- Bashfulness
- Mental Disorders > diagnosis
- Psychiatry > history
- Shyness
- Anxiety
- Social phobia
- Psychotropic drugs industry
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-247) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : Bashful no more -- 1. The hundred years' war over anxiety -- 2. The diagnostic battles : emotions become pathologies -- 3. A decisive victory : shyness becomes an illness -- 4. Direct to consumer : now sell the disease! -- 5. Rebound syndrome : when drug treatments fail -- 6. A backlash forms : Prozac nation rebels -- 7. Fear of others in an anxious age -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
- ISBN
- 9780300124460 (hbk.)
- 0300124465 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 154689037
- SCSB-10346987
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library