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Christopher Lane

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Christopher Lane is a regular contributor to Psychology Today who for many years taught medical humanities, Victorian studies, and the history of medicine at Northwestern University.

He is the author of six books, most recently Surge of Piety: Norman Vincent Peale and the Remaking of American Religious Life (Yale, 2016), on Peale’s self-described “religio-psychiatric” clinic and movement in the 1950s.

His other books include The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty (Yale, 2011) and the award-winning Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness (Yale, 2007) on behind-the-scenes changes to the DSM and the creation of the anxiety disorders between the 1970s and 1990s.

Lane’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Was ...more

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"Chemically Imbalanced": An Interview With Joanna Moncrieff

The author of “Chemically Imbalanced” discusses the persistent serotonin myth of mental illness.

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	Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness 3.24 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 2005 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Surge of Piety: Norman Vincent Peale and the Remaking of American Religious Life 3.30 avg rating — 20 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hatred and Civility: The Antisocial Life in Victorian England 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Psychoanalysis of Race 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imperial Desire: Dissident Sexualities and Colonial Literature by Philip Joseph Holden, Richard J. Ruppel (Editor), Christopher Lane (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ruling Passion: British Colonial Allegory and the Paradox of Homosexual Desire 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Burdens of Intimacy: Psychoanalysis and Victorian Masculinity liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La timidez : cómo la psiquiatría y la industria farmacéutica han convertido emociones cotidianas en enfermedad really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Psychoanalysis of Race [PAPERBACK] [1998] [By Christopher Lane(Editor)] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Christopher Lane wrote a new blog post "Chemically Imbalanced": An Interview With Joanna Moncrieff The author of “Chemically Imbalanced” discusses the persistent serotonin myth of mental illness.
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Christopher Lane rated a book it was amazing Everyone Else is Lying to You: How our medical establishment weaponized doubt to spread COVID, normalize quackery, and undermine public health by Jonathan Howard MD	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Outstanding. Extremely troubling but a powerful and necessary read.
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