Christopher J. Lane

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Christopher J. Lane
Born1966 (age 56–57)
Alma mater University of East Anglia
University of Sussex
University of London
Occupation(s) Professor, author, writer

Christopher J. Lane (born 1966) is a British-American medical writer, researcher and intellectual historian who taught medical humanities and the history of medicine at Northwestern University until his retirement in 2022. A former Guggenheim fellow, awarded the Prescrire Prize for Medical Writing, he has held Northwestern's Pearce Miller Research Professorship and is a member of the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities in the Feinberg School of Medicine. Previously, he taught at Emory University, where he was director of the Psychoanalytic Studies Program in the Psychiatry Department. A Victorianist by training, Lane specializes in 19th- and 20th-century psychology, psychiatry, and intellectual history. He is a regular contributor to Psychology Today and comparable media.

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Publications

Lane is the author of six books and the editor of two essay collections:

His book Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness critiques the broadness of the concept of social phobia as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. [1] Drawing heavily on unpublished papers at the American Psychiatric Association that document the creation and revision of the manual's third and fourth editions, Shyness also criticized the definitions of other mental disorders, including in a Los Angeles Times article that covered the controversies surrounding the drafting of the DSM-V. [2] In Slate , he discussed some of the disputes over the direction of the DSM and the secrecy surrounding the revision of its fifth edition. [3]

His articles on the DSM and psychiatric diagnosis have appeared in The New York Times, [4] The Washington Post, [5] The Boston Globe, [6] Los Angeles Times, [2] [7] New York Sun, [8] and Chronicle Review. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Grossman, Ron (27 December 2008). "Defining illnesses in secret" (PDF). Chicago Tribune.
  2. 1 2 Lane, Christopher (16 November 2008). "Wrangling over Psychiatry's Bible". Los Angeles Times.
  3. ↑ Lane, Christopher (24 July 2009). "Bitterness, Compulsive Shopping, and Internet Addiction: The Diagnostic Madness of DSM-V". Slate.
  4. ↑ Lane, Christopher (21 September 2007). "Shy on Drugs". The New York Times.
  5. ↑ Lane, Christopher (6 November 2007). "Shy? Or Something More Serious?". Washington Post.
  6. ↑ Lane, Christopher (11 June 2008). "Shyness or Social Anxiety?". The New York Times and Boston Globe.
  7. ↑ Lane, Christopher (22 July 2009). "Pharma's Misguided TV Pitches". Los Angeles Times.
  8. ↑ Lane, Christopher (26 March 2008). "Are We Really That Ill?". New York Sun.
  9. ↑ Lane, Christopher (20 March 2011). "When Doubt Became Mainstream". Chronicle Review.
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