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Diagnosis: Disordered: The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders Peter Conrad Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD, 2007, 224 pp., cloth $40.00; ppk $20.00, ISBN: 978-0801885846; ISBN: 978-0801885853 The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield Oxford University Press, New York, 2007, 312 pp., cloth, $31.95, ISBN: 978-0195313048 Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness Christopher Lane Yale University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007, 272 pp., cloth $27.50; ppk. $18.00, ISBN: 978-0300124460; ISBN: 978-0300143171

McGrath, Brian (2009). Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 14(4): 414-421. doi:10.1057/pcs.2009.27