Attempts to discredit the 1978 conclusions started long before PDW. There was a supposed epidemic in Southampton in 1979 written up in 1980 which...
Thanks Suzy .It is very helpful to have the resources linked . The first of those rather confirms my view that too much may be made of the obvious...
Thanks for that but unfortunately it seems to be the 1993 symposium-unless there is something else there that I have not spotted. The 1988 one...
There was also his comment in the Elliot Slater lecture, I probably paraphrase, "What's a little up or down regulation between friends?" One has...
I am not sure whether those remarks are aimed at my post directly above them. There is unfortunately substantial literature on illness behaviour...
That's the spirit. Keep up the optimism. There's a first time for everything.
There are highly puzzling aspects to this. He essentially presents himself, as a generalisation, as a splitter, as opposed to the lumpers, Wessely...
That is interesting. He places the blame for confusion on a meeting held 30 years before in that building. That would have been 1978. Time to...
It has to be said that he did come up with a "solution" in 1989, and pursued it for many years thereafter. Its just that it wasn't a solution, and...
Thanks @Michiel Tack and @Sarah. I tracked down an earlier use by SW in Cognitive Behaviour Management of PVFS by Simon Wessely, Sue Butler,...
I read somewhere, I forget where, that CBT and GET were introduced to overcome the "therapeutic nihilism" of the time. I think it was Wessely. It...
How severely affected were these people with ME getting themselves from Norway to the Black Sea? It would not be surprising, if they were capable...
It makes a welcome change to the "literature" on how patients seek and are granted legitimation through the "sickness role".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-48151355 Carol Monaghan is on the case.
He could be condemned to perpetual irrelevance by being made a peer- and being made to wander the corridors and dining facilities of the...
And, of course, GOSH is the home of Pervasive Refusal Syndrome-though it is not clear whether the original cases described there by Lask were a...
It is just a shame that the civil service does not seem to have such a concern for those not in its employ.
The difficulty is that it is a fluctuating condition. I can quite imagine that someone who is generally at 30% might occasionally have periods...
Jogging? Tried that in 1980. Didn't work then. No reason to expect it to work now. If only some of these doctors would listen to the shared...
I think that the word I was looking for is "resembling". Having had a further night to think about this, it seems even more astonishing that NICE...
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