#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