Interviews

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Committed : An Interview with Suzanne Scanlon,Psychology Today (April 16, 2024).

How We’ve Medicalized Shyness: Northwestern University Professor Christopher Lane,Experts on Mental Health Recovery at Sarah Fay’s Cured: The Memoir (January 13, 2024).

Robert Spitzer on DSM-III: A Recently Recovered Interview, Mad in America (February 26, 2022).

“On the Entanglements of Bio and Psyche, Past and Present.” Keynote Lecture (taped), Rice University Humanities Research Center (May 14, 2021).

CNN: “The religious roots of Trump’s magical thinking on coronavirus” (May 21, 2020).

USA Today: “Anxiety, depression and PTSD: The hidden epidemic of data breaches and cyber crimes” (February 21, 2020).

Mad in America: Creating ‘Mental Illness: An Interview with Christopher Lane (March 8, 2018).

Campaign for the American ReaderThe Peale-Hoover-Eisenhower Empire” (December 15, 2016).

Spiked Review of Books: “This manual is, frankly, a disaster for children” (June 7, 2013).

NPR, All Things Considered: “Weekend Vote Will Bring Controversial Changes to Psychiatrists Bible” (November 30, 2012).

NPR (Chicago WBEZ): 8:48: “Does DSM-5 Stigmatize Human Behaviors and Emotions (Again)? (April 23, 2012).

The Sun Magazine: “Side Effects May Include …—Christopher Lane On Whats Wrong with Modern Psychiatry (March 1, 2012).

2BoomerBabes Radio Hour, NPR (podcast): “Shyness Is Now a Mental Illness (February 4, 2012).

MSNBC: “Why This Fascination with the Apocalypse? (May 22, 2011).

NBC News, New York: “The Prophets of Doom: This Isn’t the First Time the Demise of Our World Has Been Forecast (May 20, 2011).

ABC News: “Doomsday Psychology: The Appeal of Armageddon: Why People Like Believing the End Is Near (May 20, 2011).

NPR’s “Think program (KERA): “The Roots of Religious Uncertainty (April 26, 2011).

Psychologie Heute: “Werden Wir Wirklich Immer Gestörter? [Were We Ever Really Disturbed?]” (Germany; November, 2009).

Psychanalogie/a-Nudamientos: “Enfermedades en venta [Diseases for Sale] (March 11, 2009).

Madness Radio: “Is Shyness A Disease? (March 11, 2009).

L’amateur d’idées: “Maladies à vendre [Diseases for Sale] (France; March 5, 2009).

NPR’s “On the Media: “The Art of Diagnosis (December 26, 2008).

Folha de São Paulo: “Que vergonha [What a shame]. . . Clinicalização de sentimentos como a timidez beneficia apenas a indústria farmacêutica, diz Christopher Lane em livro lançado nos EUA… (July 20, 2008; in Portuguese).

Chicago Tribune: “Just Shy. Really: An Interview with Christopher Lane (March 30, 2008). Reprinted: Newsday, Denver Post,  Annapolis Capital, and Orlando Sentinel.

Campaign for the American Reader: “Author Interviews (January 3, 2008).

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “Experts Play with People’s Emotions (December 9, 2007).

Bookslut: “A Pill for Every Mood: An Interview with Christopher Lane (December 2007).

Psicolinea.it: “Shyness Is not a Sickness (December 2007; in Italian).

Furious Seasons: “An Interview with Christopher Lane (October 1, 2007).