- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Yale University Press; 1 edition (2 Nov 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0300124465
- ISBN-13: 978-0300124460
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 806,498 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"... compelling reading."
--Martin Guha, Journal of Mental Health, April 2009
--Martin Guha, Journal of Mental Health, April 2009
Helen Guldberg, Spiked Review of Books, December 2007
'Fascinating... persuasive... should be read by anyone interested in stopping the rot in the discussion of human emotion and thought.'
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12 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This has got to be one of the most accessible, informative, and fascinating critiques of psychiatry around. I bought it after reading a piece about it in the Daily Mail and am really glad I did. Probably like most of us, I had concerns about what the pharmaceutical industry is doing and how psychiatrists are medicating children, but no definitive proof of how enmeshed both groups had become. This book has definitive proof of their ties and influence, and it's a real eye-opener.
12 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I recommend this book highly. It documents an alarming trend in psychiatry that we all should be paying more attention to. Like any other excellent modern polemicist, Lane's research is exhaustive and his style artfully makes an important point: psychiatry has gone overboard in exaggerating normal behaviours like shyness, turning minor fears into major disorders. Five stars.
17 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Whatever the secrecy, it is very important that there is a difference between shyness and the disabling 'social phobia'. If he has read books, by two severely social phobics 'The Hell of Social Phobia' and 'Where fear is no longer a Reality' he would realise that there is a large difference between normal shyness and extreme shyness. One guy has to drink copious amounts of alcohol to blot out the thoughts in his head and now gives speeches. People who are very shy cannot always achieve much in their career or they choose certain ones like acting to coverup their personality. One of the best things that has happened to social phobics is that there is a medical term for it and if people need drugs or cognitive therapy is up to them to think of the risks etc because who wants to be stuck in a house, not able to see your friends because of the irrational 'fear'. Of course drug companies want to make money and some of the social phobics do find them helpful, some don't, so they try other methods such as hypnotherpy. I have used them from time to time and not all are addictive. I feel very sorry for kids if they do not get the help they need with their acute social phobia, something I had.
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