Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness

"[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