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New Book: How Shyness Became a Mental Illness

EVANSTON, Ill. --- What's wrong with being shy, and just when and how did bashfulness and other ordinary human behaviors in children and adults become psychiatric disorders treatable with powerful, potentially dangerous drugs, asks a Northwestern University scholar in a new book that already is creating waves in the mental health community.

In �Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness� (Yale University Press, October 2007), Northwestern's Christopher Lane chronicles the �highly unscientific and often arbitrary way� in which widespread revisions were made to �The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders� (DSM), a publication known as the bible of psychiatry that is consulted daily by insurance companies, courts, prisons and schools as well as by physicians and mental health workers.

�The number of mental disorders that children and adults in the general population might exhibit leaped from 180 in 1968 to more than 350 in 1994,� notes Lane....



http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2007/10/lane.html

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Don't be shy, look him in the eye George

U.S. President George W. Bush (R) meets with Lance Cpl. Isaac Gallegos (L) during a visit to the Center for the Intrepid at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, November 8, 2007