Title: Shyness : how normal behavior became a sickness /
Authors: Lane, Christopher, 1966-
Publisher: Yale University Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: 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; United States
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.