Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became A Sickness -

In "Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness," Christopher Lane argues that the medicalization of shyness into a disorder was driven by pharmaceutical interests and political shifts within psychiatry rather than scientific breakthroughs. The book highlights how the DSM expansionpathologized normal emotions and fostered the overdiagnosis of Social Anxiety Disorder. For more details, visit Mother Jones . Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness