Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness by Christopher Lane

Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness

Christopher Lane

263 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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How a handful of psychiatrists, with the help of the pharmaceutical industry, turned the ordinary emotion of shyness into an illness In the 1970s, a small group of leading psychiatrists met behind closed doors and literally rewrote the book on the...

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