Interesting to know that pregnancy and child birth are then also psychogenic, because more women than men get pregnant.
...cause offence. Also interesting was the explanation of McEvedy and Beard's logic - the outbreak at the Royal Free must have been hysteria...
That article is fantastic. Here's one reader comment (rosiecox1)
I cannot speak for Charles Shepherd, but McEvedy and Beard had not "already spread their crypto-ablest propaganda by 1970". Their paper was...
McEvedy & Beard had already spread their crypto-ablest propaganda by 1970, Charles Shepherd who trained in the 1970s says that he was taught that...
On his own admission, in his official study of Gulf War veterans, Wessely performed no clinical examination or laboratory investigations. Just...
Yep, setting the scene for open ended swathes of research on long covid and mental health/psychology/psychiatry. Oh and there are Beard and...
Pelosi stood at the cradle of the psychiatric hyjack of ME, so this is not surprising. E.g. about ME: "We question the value of distinguishing...
Has anyone actually done prope experimental trials looking at the harms of treating people with any condition (and I’d suggest adding in a mental...
...than CFS, both names are equally smeared here. The McEvedy and Beard paper of 1970 declared the Royal Free outbreak of ME to be 'hysteria'...
...is a 1957 report on the Royal Free outbreak, Ref 43 is Mcevedy and Beard's 1970 hatchet job, and Ref 31 is Holmes et al 1988 paper on CFS - no...
McEvedy and Beard had done work on mass hysteria among schoolchildren. They looked around for another research project and lit on the Royal Free...
...designation "ME" can be misleadingly understood [McEvedy and Beard 1970, Shorter 1993]" Interesting references to support that point. A lot...
5.7.5 - the 'special' comment. Apparently this is what the acronyms are for: German College for Psychosomatic Medicine (DKPM) German Society for...
...sign of disease is still not likely to be psychogenic. McEvedy and Beard did a couple of papers before they turned their attention to ME....
...taken very seriously by the medical profession. I doubt McEvedy and Beard changed that much. In contrast Chronic Fatigue Syndrome has been...
They should try rereading their 1970 editoral on McEvedy and Beard. But on no account should it be lost to the record.
...Washington Post journalist who brought the good news of McEvedy and Beard with indecent haste ,and lurid description, from London, if not to...
...up as a better name. The evidence from Straus and Eisenberg is that ME was dismissed as being hysterical in nature, as proved by McEvedy and Beard
Thank you for the good explanation. I guess what it comes down to, is that the original term ME no longer means what it used to (eg, the Ramsay...
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