Shyness:
					How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness

#1 Bestseller in Medicine and Psychology from October 2007 to June 2008, as compiled by YBP Library Services.

Commended by the British Medical Association (2008).

“Superb”Library Journal (* review)

“Brilliant”New Statesman

“Excellent”New York Observer

“Splendid”The Lancet

“Scathing”Publishers Weekly

“Well-researched, controversial”New York Times Book Review

Reasoned and convincing”Le Monde

Lane has exposed a very worrying problem”Journal of Mental Health

“Christopher Lane's polemical Shyness features the manipulations that promoted social anxiety disorder to a national emergency.”New York Review of Books

Overall, Lane's scholarly account of this saga ensures that if you're not already concerned about the over-medicalization of our mental lives, you will be.BBC Focus