I realise that this is hardly news but thought it worth a reread as Chalder and Butler in a 1989 MEA newsletter considered it one of the two...
How like them to introduce the term without any definition. I suppose they think it speaks for itself. The little question of what constitutes...
This makes peer review sound rather like auditing accounts. Take the money for doing the job and express astonishment when some whistleblower...
Perhaps they should try lobbying the Prime Minister. Looking at him one suspects that there is something we are not being told. There is a...
My curiosity about Gelder was aroused, in innocent, ignorant days, seemingly long gone, when I wondered what could possibly have motivated someone...
This is precisely the point. Ramsay always talked of relapse and remission, whilst saying that symptoms could be exacerbated by exercise. I think...
Oh yes. Sharpe and Hawton were part of the Gelder gang. The above book including the Sharpe chapter and the Salkovskis chapter has a foreward by...
I suppose we should be grateful to these ubermensch for explaining to us our frailties. When my stomach is stronger I must try to reread the...
I'm a little troubled by the "There is always harm in fighting" statement" It's true. But there may be greater harm in not fighting.
I think this is my final offering on the subject MEA Newsletter Winter 1989 A Letter from our President- Dr Melvin Ramsey SO WHAT IS MY ADVICE...
Afraid not. I don't think the omission is vital. Anything it did say was corrected before Goldberg's comment. Would that he, Wessely and others...
I missed one MEA The management of patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis by Charles Shepherd June 1988 General Advice The key advice to...
I thought it might be worth producing some evidence to refute the claim that "Furthermore, the patients' illness behaviour is likely to be...
SW is someone of whom it might be said that it is not always easy to know what he is saying from what he says. Much digging around the periphery...
Is that a clinical review of the patients, or a managerial review of the staff?
I once followed up that quote and it seemed to have been directed at J Gordon Parish. Those familiar with Osler's Web will recall that Parish was...
If he (or she) were a true CFS/ME researcher he/she should feel able to shrug off the criticism as due to dysfunctional cognitions and maladaptive...
I have recently unearthed some of the advice given by the MEA and ME Action Campaign in the early late 1980's/early 1990's. The only significant...
Winarick, who may or may not be a scientifically valid construct, appears to be concerned with matters of form rather than substance. People...
That would appear to be merely an expression of the limitations of his/her experience and all the more reason to rely upon the professional...
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