I agree with all of that. But patients should lean totally on science because science is just testing if an idea holds up or not. I think what is...
I fear Wednesday might be the Guardian! I was interested to see Frances Ryan tweeting about all this (she writes for Grauniad and I think has...
You really have made a pig's ear of that one, Duncan. My wife is fine because she had ECT, not exorcism.
Yes we have agreed that. Try reading the sentence again. The point is that the science does not help. What I think is counterproductive is the...
Absolutely, and I am afraid Dr Porter brings me out in prickles on rather too many occasions with his suave oversimplifications.
What I am hoping to explain to friends here is that this is not a cogent way to phrase things. Psychiatry is biological too. There are no spooky...
Have you ever lived with, and had to nurse singlehanded for a year, someone with paranoid psychosis? Let's not belittle psychiatric illness or the...
Agreed; the point of my post above is that he does not seem to realise there is a difference.
Well people complain of spots but they are not diagnosed with spots.
Chronic fatigue is a real and common complaint but it is not a diagnosis. Perhaps you need a thick skin if you write about something you are...
I wrote a chunk on this when I started writing that book. I agree with what you say. An interesting one is Alzheimer's- is that neurological or...
Yes he says that the JHP volume was a campaign. He also talks of the hate 'behind these campaigns'. To my mind this is direct slander of myself...
Seems like you've rumbled us.
It is odd. The raising of the JHP volume suggests that Sharpe was not just being given air time. Almost as if the editor was serving him a...
Useful, appreciated.
This is what it sounded like. I am reminded of an interview with Andrew Wakefield where he complained that everyone was ganging up against his...
I think it is interesting that on this occasion the complaint was not really about abuse or death threats but about criticism of the science. And...
Poor Sharpe sounded a bit pathetic and I suspect barely credible. The presenter pointed out that the methodology had been questioned. Sharpe...
Apparently my article was hate fuelled by the idea that ME is not real.
"Journal of Health Psychology at liberty to publish campaigns"
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