2008 Living Anxious Awards |
Achievement
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| Paul David Wellstone (July 21, 1944 - October 25, 2002), a two-term U.S. Senator from the U.S. state of Minnesota and a long time mental health advocate.
Wellstone championed legislation that would help end the stigma of mental illness by treating it on a par with physical maladies which ultimately resulted in the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. Paul Wellstone wins this Lifetime Achievement award for his efforts. |
Shame
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| Christopher Lane, professor of English at Northwestern University and author of "Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness". The very name of his book is an insult to anxious people.
To quote Frederick C. Crews, author of "Talking Back to Prozac": "Lane is not a psychiatrist but a psychoanalytic literary critic who aligns himself with such empirically insouciant authorities as Jacques Lacan, Elisabeth Roudinesco, and Adam Phillips. Like many another Freudian, he is still in shock over DSM-III of 1980, the edition that consigned the "neuroses" to limbo, favored descriptive over depth-psychological accounts of disorders, and established the uniform symptom-tallying procedure for certifying a diagnosis." |
