Shyness : how normal behavior became a sickness /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lane, Christopher, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
American Psychiatric Association.
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
Geschichte 1970-2007
Bashfulness.
Anxiety.
Social phobia.
Psychotropic drugs industry.
Mental Disorders > diagnosis
Psychiatry > trends
Shyness
Phobic Disorders
Anxiety
Timidité.
Angoisse.
Phobies sociales.
Psychotropes > Industrie.
anxiety.
PSYCHOLOGY > General.
Krankheitsbegriff
Schüchternheit
Sozialangst
Verlegenheid.
Sociale angst.
Blyghet.
Social fobi.
Psychiatry > United States > History.
Mental illness > United States > History.
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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