It may be that matters have not changed greatly on the recovery front. In 1993 McCluskey said: "Of the CFS patients that we have studied about...
I suspect that the origins for the claims with which the original enquiry was concerned lie in the paper Sharpe M, Hawtpn K, Seagroatt V, Pasvol...
If you were scientifically inclined would you not wish to know how those who did not participate in the follow up were sit between the four...
Sharpe says "patients beliefs that the symptoms of CFS are evidence of disease, particularly viral infection, and that any activity which...
On further reflection the earlier post shoed the real beauty of the BPS approach. SE was referring mot to something said by Sharpe in the...
@Barry I have edited the post to include a quote from the abstract. I am not sure that amateurish is le mot juste.
I thought that these quotations ought to be added, presumably uttered within fifteen minutes of each other. Wessely: "Thinking of Weir Mitchell...
Given that the leading researchers are sufficiently intelligent to understand that acceptance of money from the DWP would inevitably prejudice the...
It all sounds very familiar to me. The only points to make are that 37 years have passed and the b....... still have not learned.
I wonder whether the missing link between Sharpe's CBT for CFS and Gelder is Hawton They co-authored: Follow up of patients presenting with...
I am not entirely surprised at the difficulties. In a study of this sort which must involve NHS resources,one suspects that there must be notional...
He was acknowledged in the paper by Sharpe setting out the Oxford Criteria as one of those assisting with funding of the meeting. His interest in...
Eureka. Now I see that the use of the Sunday Times mock-up was legitimate defence of science in the post-truth era. Such a shame we have not...
Perhaps it is all a coded message to indicate the view of insiders that psychiatry has not progressed beyond the middle ages.
Perhaps they did not hear of the Muppets.
I know nothing about that. But perhaps it explains the failure of GET. What they need is prizes.
I do wish someone would do a survey to ascertain what proportion of research psychologists report results in a coherent and meaningful manner....
Is the prospective new treatment Graded Shopping Therapy? You start off on the first aisle at Waitrose -I don't suppose they shop at Tesco -and...
There is only one problem with the deconditioning model. It is wholly incompatible with the evidence. How can it be that when you have a relapse...
Fair cop, gov. I'll come quietly.
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