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Author Lane, Christopher, 1966-

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

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
©2007

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  616.8522 L24    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  616.89 L265S    Check Shelf
Description 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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 Bashfulness.
Anxiety.
Social phobia.
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.
American Psychiatric Association.
Psychotropic drugs industry.
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.
Shyness -- United States.
Mental Disorders -- diagnosis -- United States.
Psychiatry -- trends -- United States.
ISBN 9780300124460 cloth alkaline paper
0300124465 cloth alkaline paper
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