Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Bashful No More 1
4. 1. The Hundred Years’ War over Anxiety 11
5. 2. The Diagnostic Battles: Emotions Become Pathologies 39
6. 3. A Decisive Victory: Shyness Becomes an Illness 71
7. 4. Direct to Consumer: Now Sell the Disease! 104
8. 5. Rebound Syndrome: When Drug Treatments Fail 139
9. 6. A Backlash Forms: Prozac Nation Rebels 169
10. 7. Fear of Others in an Anxious Age 194
11. Notes 213
12. Acknowledgments 249
13. Index 253