Christopher Lane asks if Shyness is a Disease

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Mon, 04/04/2011 - 12:00am
Christopher Lane asks if Shyness is a Disease

 Hosted by Will Hall

Do pharmaceutical companies control the social definition of normal? Can advertising and public relations campaigns turn acceptable personality differences into unacceptable disorders? British-American literary critic and historian Christopher Lane discusses his book Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness, including the way politics and profits drive the bible of mental health treatment, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. 

www.christopherlane.org/

http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/side-effects

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