Living Crazy

The lack of adequate dysfunction indicators combined with the normal distribution of social anxiety as designed negative emotion suggests that many or most people satisfying DSM social phobia criteria are temperamentally high in social anxiety but do not suffer from a disorder. They suffer from anxiety triggered by social situations one is designed to be wary of or from heightened anxiety caused by inhibiting the submission displays that would terminate social threat. Wakefield et al offer a well-reasoned and stimulating critique of the current conceptualization of social phobia.