Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness - Brossura

Lane, Christopher

 
9780300143171: Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness
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ISBN 10: 0300143176 ISBN 13: 9780300143171
Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2009

Sinossi

How a handful of psychiatrists, with the help of the pharmaceutical industry, turned the ordinary emotion of shyness into an illness

In the 1970s, a small group of leading psychiatrists met behind closed doors and literally rewrote the book on their profession. Revising and greatly expanding the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM for short), they turned what had been a thin, spiral-bound handbook into a hefty tome. Almost overnight the number of diagnoses exploded. The result was a windfall for the pharmaceutical industry and a massive conflict of interest for psychiatry at large. This spellbinding book is the first behind-the-scenes account of what really happened and why.

With unprecedented access to the American Psychiatric Association archives and previously classified memos from drug company executives, Christopher Lane unearths the disturbing truth: with little scientific justification and sometimes hilariously improbable rationales, hundreds of conditions—among them shyness—are now defined as psychiatric disorders and considered treatable with drugs. Lane shows how long-standing disagreements within the profession set the stage for these changes, and he assesses who has gained and what’s been lost in the process of medicalizing emotions. With dry wit, he demolishes the façade of objective research behind which the revolution in psychiatry has hidden. He finds a profession riddled with backbiting and jockeying, and even more troubling, a profession increasingly beholden to its corporate sponsors.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Christopher Lane is the Pearce Miller Research Professor, Northwestern University, and the recent recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship to study psychopharmacology and ethics.

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Editore
Yale Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2009
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0300143176
ISBN 13 
9780300143171
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
263
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9780300124460: Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0300124465 ISBN 13:  9780300124460
Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2007
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