"Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is the best-evaluated psychological approach to treat patients with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS)." ER...
I haven't had a close look recently but from recall a lot is of similar design to PACE/FINE. E. G. pretty much all uses subjective outcome...
This is interesting. Thanks for posting. I'll take a closer read later on. Body temp is something I've tracked in pwME. Often their body...
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I don't know the answer to that, tbh. There has been much gained in terms of prestige, honours, knighthoods, professorships and so forth by...
Wessely school et al have been very good sales people - and they come along with a very seductive package for commissioners, research funders etc...
This has been Wessely et al's mantra for decades. And they have been believed by many in authority over the years. Providing a convenient panacea...
I think it is way too early to be conflating the two. Especially as both are conditions based on symptoms. Misdiagnosis in pwME is common....
Susan Sontag's two books Illness as Metaphor and AIDS as metaphor are slim and brilliant. Smile or Die by Barbara E is really good. I've packed...
Richard Webster's book is a pretty big door stop. Through job. I seem to recall that the appendix about hysteria may be available on his website.
Me too She acknowledged my support in the book which was lovely of her.
Angela Kennedy wrote a book called Authors of our own misfortune, if I recall. Also, the book Why Freud was wrong has an excellent appendix...
That's pretty shocking The pressure to find a positive at all costs reigns supreme over objective science. Kinda wonder why journals are...
Looks like it. Here is a summary by Mark Manson: https://markmanson.net/the-secret
I suspect PG has read The Secret. Or his helper has done. It's an astonishing piece of tosh. Oft foisted on the chronically ill or the thinking...
And Miller was the medic responsible for assessing harms in the FINE trial and I think PACE too. I have a story from the FINE trial. I'll dig it...
Ha ha it was pretty much the only thing I did that month
I've sent this to the Editor of the Guardian Dear Editor, I was astonished to read that Dr Alastair Miller is unaware of harms due to exercise...
Mike Scott is not anti CBT. He has written several books on the subject. He is critical, as I am, of how the IAPT project is panning out. For...
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