Shyness : How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (272 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Bashful No More -- 1. The Hundred Years' War over Anxiety -- 2. The Diagnostic Battles: Emotions Become Pathologies -- 3. A Decisive Victory: Shyness Becomes an Illness -- 4. Direct to Consumer: Now Sell the Disease! -- 5. Rebound Syndrome: When Drug Treatments Fail -- 6. A Backlash Forms: Prozac Nation Rebels -- 7. Fear of Others in an Anxious Age -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.