{"product_id":"shyness-christopher-lane-9780300143171","title":"Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow a handful of psychiatrists, with the help of the pharmaceutical industry, turned the ordinary emotion of shyness into an illness\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the 1970s, a small group of leading psychiatrists met behind closed doors and literally rewrote the book on their profession. Revising and greatly expanding the\u003ci\u003e Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eDSM\u003c\/i\u003e for short), they turned what had been a thin, spiral-bound handbook into a hefty tome. Almost overnight the number of diagnoses exploded. The result was a windfall for the pharmaceutical industry and a massive conflict of interest for psychiatry at large. This spellbinding book is the first behind-the-scenes account of what really happened and why.\u003cp\u003eWith unprecedented access to the American Psychiatric Association archives and previously classified memos from drug company executives, Christopher Lane unearths the disturbing truth: with little scientific justification and sometimes hilariously improbable rationales, hundreds of conditions--among them shyness--are now defined as psychiatric disorders and considered treatable with drugs. Lane shows how long-standing disagreements within the profession set the stage for these changes, and he assesses who has gained and what's been lost in the process of medicalizing emotions. With dry wit, he demolishes the fa ade of objective research behind which the revolution in psychiatry has hidden. He finds a profession riddled with backbiting and jockeying, and even more troubling, a profession increasingly beholden to its corporate sponsors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Lane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300143176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300143171\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.27h x 6.22w x 0.72d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/2009 pg. 8\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/18\/2009 pg. 20","brand":"Christopher Lane","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44074461823231,"sku":"9780300143171","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b5dcf76c-9e9f-4382-9a33-bb72ef36a095.jpg?v=1685453881","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shyness-christopher-lane-9780300143171","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}