By the way, the DSM-5 Somatic Symptom Disorders Working Group had comprised the following members (I have highlighted the two UK members): DSM-5...
If you are not aware @wigglethemouse (and apologies if you are): for the WHO's forthcoming ICD-11, the single category replacement for most of...
DSM-5 (May 2013) Malingering was excluded from the index in DSM-5 but remains under "Other Conditions That May Be a Focus of Clinical Attention"...
From the forthcoming ICD-11: https://icd.who.int/dev11/l-m/en#http%3a%2f%2fid.who.int%2ficd%2fentity%2f443670483 Parent: MB23 Symptoms or...
maxwhd was onto this in 2014 --------------------------------------- maxwhd · @maxwhd 5th Apr 2014 from TwitLonger...
Might the company have been set up in order to potentially market the manuals?
It is correct that he is not a salaried employee of the MEA. But he is a member of the Board of Trustees. He is accountable to the BOT which is...
Edited to include quote from PACE Trial Identifier: https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/30/re-professor-wessely-and-dr-whites-views "The...
Prior to 2003, Dr Shepherd was paid a salary in the role of Medical Adviser to the MEA. This was in the Val Hockey era. He was sacked from this...
What Binkie4 says.
Re George Monbiot, for any who might not have already come across it, this piece from 2003 is an illuminating read:...
Extract from an April 2008 post on my old ME agenda site: PubMed: Papers published since January 2002 in the field of CFS by Simon Wessely...
That's the first time I've laughed all day!
Indeed. September 2001 was just a few months away from publication of the CMO's Report (January 2002), so SW and colleagues had much to feel...
Extract from the above 2001 article: "Simon Wessely, of the Department of Psychological Medicine at Guy's, King's and St Thomas's School of...
Even allowing time for any ongoing studies at the point he was interviewed, in 2001, to reach completion, plus time for publication of papers on...
"Liddle uses the resignation of a researcher into ME, Michael Sharpe..." He's not exactly "resigned" - but threatened to remove his snout from...
Clarifications regarding the ICD-10 PHC (Diagnostic and Management Guidelines for Mental Disorders in Primary Care: ICD-10 Chapter V Primary Care...
A "label", as he calls it, is crucial if you have a child or young person who requires a reduced school timetable or provision of home tuition, or...
Dr Porter article is on p4 of this morning's Times2 (Wednesday March 19). Yesterday's online version used the headline: "ME: Treatment for...
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