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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.Description: 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780300124460 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0300124465 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BF575.B3 L35 2007
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-247) and index.

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.

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.