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Is Shyness a Disease? Christopher Lane

Category: Health
Duration: 00:50:11
Publish Date: 2009-03-11 17:55:58
Description:

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.

http://www.christopherlane.org
http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/side-effects

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