Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness with Christopher Lane

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Mon, 04/06/2015 - 11:30am to 12:00pm
Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness with Christopher Lane

On this episode of Madness Radio: Voices and Visions from Outside Mental Health: Do pharmaceutical companies control the social definition of normal? Can advertising and public relations campaigns turn acceptable personality differences into unacceptable disorders? Christopher Lane discusses his book Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness, including the way politics and profits drive the bible of mental health treatment, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.
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