Wessely will never retire. He will go his grave defending and expanding his empire, denying any serious wrong doing, and smearing his critics,...
Jeebus, that is brutal. But not surprising. The biopsychosocial school have serious blood on their hands, and it is about to get a lot worse, if...
'The marketing isn't working!'
Adverse consequences from anaesthesia gone wrong are usually immediate and definite. There is a clear causal and dose-response relationship.
While imputing it to the thinking of others, criticising others' models on that basis, and describing their own approach as integrative, going...
+1 My guess they are being allowed in, even invited in, as just variations on the placebo effect, which is "one of the most powerful...
"In general terms, FND is a disorder where the primary problem appears to be one of accessing or controlling the body normally, despite normal...
I think OI (or unstable hemodynamics generally) is a major issue in ME. I would call it a core feature of my experience with it, that has been...
I like that comparison.
@bobbler Psychosomatics is clearly the hill that the psych world has decided to sacrifice its reputation on. Not to mention its patients....
Indeed. It is clear that one of their current strategies is to try rewriting history to make out that the BPS view is the underdog and a 'new BPS...
I am sure the explanation for that omission from their considerations is entirely innocent. A brief functional glitch in their software, no...
Yeah, I want to know this too. What exactly have they achieved by this methodological sleight-of-hand? Was the patient's life improved in any...
Yep. Software-hardware is not wetware (biology). Not even close. One of the most inappropriate analogies I have ever seen. –––––– "We may at...
Wessely & Co – the psychosomatic club – are among the most protected of all human species I have ever seen. Even the highest levels of medical...
The Goldilocks theory of disease, and how to cure it.
They want to append that diagnosis to literally every other diagnostic category. That is why the BPS club have been pushing the whole...
cognitive deconditioning So why doesn't cognitive function in ME improve with use, but instead get worse (particularly if sufficient recovery...
I had a colonoscopy in December, and followed the bowel clearing protocol to the letter. All I got for my troubles was an "average" for...
What about relentless causal misattribution? Does that play any part?
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