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Reviewed on March 15, 2005
These two titles address social anxiety disorder, a mental illness experienced by 5.3 million Americans. Hollander (psychiatry, Mount Sinai Medical Ctr.; coeditor, The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Anxiety Disorders ) and Bakalar (coauthor, Understanding Teenage Depression ) explain the nature of the disorder and how it differs from simple shyness and phobia, as well as the range of current treatment options. Drawing on scientific journals, they also nicely summarize in lay terms the latest research on the origins of social anxiety, its common co-morbidity with other disorders, self-tests for o...Log In or Sign Up to Read More




