There is a growing tendency to categorize rather than celebrate eccentricity CNN.com - Age of anxiety
The link no longer works. But the article talks about Jon Winokur’s Encyclopedia Neurotica
This often acerbic dictionary-style guide is an indictment of the self absorption of the affluent West, and the growing tendency to categorize rather than celebrate eccentricity. “In this country, we just have so much of everything and so much time to analyze ourselves. We seem to medicalize oddity and quirkiness. I also wanted to try to make the point that, as actress Carrie Fisher said, ‘All the good people are nuts.’ This is what makes life so interesting,” Winokur told Reuters. His book quotes Pulitzer Prize journalist Michael Skube, who in 1998 noted: “Of all the countries on earth, we are the leaders in disorders … If we don’t have attention deficit disorder, we have … anxiety disorder, or mood disorder. Other cultures just don’t seem to have the problems we do.”
Article Age of anxiety - ‘Encyclopedia Neurotica’ a guide to modern neuroses
CNN.com / Reuters
February 3, 2005
I found this might also help. The article is towards the right of the document.