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July 29, 2010
in Business, Health & Medicine, History, Psychology

No More Normal?

July 29, 2010
in Business, Health & Medicine, History, Psychology

In 2013 a new edition of the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) will be published, and the American Psychiatric Association has already begun to prepare it. A number of mental health professionals are warning that the expanded diagnoses are leading to a world in which almost no

November 27, 2007
in Current Affairs, Health & Medicine, History, Science, Social Science, Technology

Lane op-ed in the Washington Post

November 27, 2007
in Current Affairs, Health & Medicine, History, Science, Social Science, Technology

Christopher Lane, author of Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness, wrote an op-ed for the November 6 edition of the Washington Post. The piece, titled “Shy? Or Something More Serious?,” has generated strong responses online. Here is an excerpt from “Shy? Or Something More Serious?”: If anyone in my