Christopher Lane, Ph.D., teaches literature and intellectual history at Northwestern University and is a former Guggenheim fellow. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Slate, Chronicle Review, and several other newspapers and periodicals. He is the author of six books, most recently The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty (Yale, 2011) and Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness (Yale, 2007), winner of the Prescrire Prize for Medical Writing (France, 2010), now in six translations.The Hammer and the Cross, a book on psychology, psychiatry, and the remaking of religious life in 1950s America, is forthcoming with Yale University Press in Fall 2016. He writes for the Huffington Post and a blog for Psychology Today called "Side Effects."