On Social Phobia.

or: The Disease-Mongers' Playbook

This week, as part of their series Tales From the Clinic: The Art of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Times carried a short article on social phobia (now social anxiety disorder, SAD, not to be confused with seasonal affective disorder). There is no definition of the condition, only a brief description of a case, so the definition comes from DSM-5 (abbreviations…