SHYNESS
How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness
Christopher Lane
Yale University Press, 2008
LEARNING OBJECTIVES - This course was designed to allow the reader to:
• Understand the development of the concept of anxiety over the past century and its effects on culture
• Understand how emotions have become pathologies in the development of diagnostic categories
• Understand how shyness became a pathology
• Understand how the concept of shyness as an illness was accepted by the public
• Understand why drug treatments have failed
• Understand the backlash to the pathologizing of shyness
Christopher Lane is the Pearce Miller Research Professor of Literature at Northwestern University. He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times, as well as published more than fifty peer-reviewed articles in journals.
9 CE credits; 272 pages
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