Posted Friday, July 24, 2009 - 09:55
by Lauren
in Client News and Reviews
Is apathy a brain "disorder?"
Christopher Lane discusses the fifth edition of The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorderstoday in Slate.
To read his thoughts, click here.
"[A] fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the making of the bible of modern psychiatry [that] explains how a once-ordinary affliction became a profitable disease."-Michael Agger, Mother Jones
"Lane argues in this well-researched . . . controversial book that shyness [has been] pathologized, to the detriment, especially, of children and teenagers"-Elsa Dixler, New York Times Book Review
Science
9780300143171
$18.00
Paperback
Yale University Press
