Articles on or Referencing Shyness

"Head Case: Can Psychiatry Be a Science?" New Yorker (March 1, 2010).

"Sex Addiction Divides Mental Health Experts," Los Angeles Times (March 1, 2010).

"Psychiatrists Want to Call Being Angry a Mental Illness. How Utterly Mad!" Daily Mail (February 15, 2010).

"Children's Tantrums May Be Re-Classed as Psychiatric Disorders," The Guardian (February 10, 2010).

"Revision to the Bible of Psychiatry, DSM, Could Introduce New Mental Disorders," Washington Post          (February 10, 2010).

"High Anxiety," Experience Life Magazine (November, 2009).

"Is Binge Eating a Psychiatric Disorder?" Los Angeles Times (November 23, 2009).

"Sjukt blyg? Oftast inte [Troubled Shy? Usually Not]," Svenska Dagbladet (Stockholm; November 11, 2009).

         In Swedish.

"Werden wir wirklich immer gestörter? [Were We Ever Really Disturbed?]," Psychologie Heute (November,          2009). In German. Full article in print edition.

"We Are All Crazy," Yedioth Ahronoth (Jerusalem; August 20, 2009). In Hebrew.

         The lede translated: "Bitterness is a mental illness, say some U.S. psychiatrists, provoking a debate

         about the limits of normality. Why do the world's most influential psychiatrists insist on defining

         natural behaviors as mental disorders, and how much money do the pharmaceutical companies make

         out of it? A glimpse into an industry gone mad."

"Is Your Sanity at Stake?" Toronto Globe and Mail (July 7, 2009).

"Bitterness Touted as Sanctioned Mental Disorder," Vancouver Times Colonist, Calgary Herald, Regina

          Leader-Post, National Post, CanWest, Canada.com, and more (May 31, 2009).

"Scholars Discuss 'Medicalization' of Formerly Normal Characteristics," Harvard Gazette (April 28, 2009).

"De la critique d'une illusion à une illusion de critique," Nonfiction.fr (Paris; April 25, 2009).

"La maladie de la médicalisation," Le Monde (Paris; March 5, 2009).

"El cartel de las medicinas [The Medical Cartel]," El Nuevo Herald (Miami; Venezuela; Colombia; Cuba;

          January 22, 2009).

"Drug Companies and Doctors: A Story of Corruption," New York Review of Books (January 15, 2009).

"Psychiatric Manual's Update Needs Openness, Not Secrecy, Critics Say," Chicago Tribune (December 27,

          2008). Reprinted: Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.

"The New Mental Disorders?" Atlanta Journal-Constitution (November 23, 2008).

"Psychiatric Bible to Add New Diagnoses: DSM Makeover Process Shrouded in Secrecy," American

          Chronicle (October 15, 2008).

"Did Anti-Depressants Cause the Mortgage Crisis?" The Daily Beast (October 6, 2008).

"Popping Pills for Shyness," The Comment Factory (October 2, 2008).

"Critics Blast the Book on Mental Illness," Toronto Globe and Mail (June 25, 2008).

"More Than Shy: How to Cope With Social Anxiety," U.S. News and World Report (April 2, 2008).

"Is Being Shy an Illness?" BBC News Magazine (March 4, 2008).

"How Shy Became Sick," Chicago Reader (February 14, 2008).

"Who Needs Seroxat? A Better Drug's At Hand," Daily Telegraph, op ed (UK; December 21, 2007).

"Being Shy Is Not an Illness—So Why Are We Treating It With Drugs?" Daily Mail (UK; December 18, 2007).

"Mind Games: Author: Too Many Being Treated for Mental Disorders They Don't Have," Atlanta Journal-

          Constitution, op ed (December 9, 2007).