The dysfunctional cognitions and maladaptive behaviour are entitled to a break too.
I meant "undue influence" rather than duress. You know how it is with ME, "le mot juste" never arrives until far too late, or is that just due to...
There would appear to have been a distinct change of attitude on the part of SW between January 1992 and October 1993 the dates of his letters to...
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I am sorry to harp on about what must currently seem like an obsessional interest of mine, but what SW seems to be describing in his Elliot Slater...
If, as an epidemiologist, he knows that people have CFS only when they fulfil operational criteria for that condition, it may be that we would be...
There are times when one has to sympathise with the lot of doctors, and think it perhaps unsurprising that they have strange views about ME.
One can see potential procedural difficulties with a committee in which some members might be considered by others to have special knowledge which...
Mechanic gives what is effectively a cost/benefit analysis, which does at least show the rationale behind the process, but says, under the heading...
….The doctor may sense that the consultation will go more smoothly if he avoids psychological topics-with their implication that physical...
@Lucibee Could you assist with @Inara 's request? I might be able to do it, but it would be a struggle and require assistance. I became ill before...
The plot thickens over the question of the doctor patient disorder. Perhaps the most fundamental element in the PVFS, and the acrimony that...
…… and it is known that in patients with severe chronic fatigue a skilled interview is more likely to provide information of use to the physician...
Third, the use of extensive laboratory investigation has been found to be unrewarding and may be psychologically harmful to the patient by...
It was interesting that she effectively brought up the question of mass hysteria, with mention of some fainting episode in a Yorkshire school. It...
@JaimeS how far back are you wanting to go. This is all over the early literature. Are you looking for earliest attributions?
I wish I could come to terms with and understand this idea of the mind. The end of the talk brought to mind the comments by Arthur Kleinman at...
I am sure it is controversial. What it comes down to is whether one believes the witnesses and, if one does not, what are the reasons for the...
I wonder whether it has to be a currently practising physician, or whether they could be retired.
It's easy to see why they would suppress the evidence that they thought the condition was related to hypochondriasis and somatisation.
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