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That is exactly what it is. Patients having to manage emotionally stunted clinicians, simply to survive the clinical encounter with these snowflakes. Yep. Worth repeating in full. I think he is projection personified, par excellence one might even say. Everything he attributes to patients is...

That is certainly how it gets used in practice. When in reality it is the inverse: failed theories and the theoreticians proposing them need something and somebody else to blame for the failure and human carnage left in its wake, and usually it is the victim who becomes the party 'responsible'...

Be careful what you wish for, dear patients.

The term is so loaded with arbitrary causal attribution that it has become a major source of bias in and of itself. Unfortunately this is not an isolated example in psych. If anything the entire field is heavily contaminated by this problem. It is genuinely astounding that the one...

Individual face-to-face CBT was found to have a large effect size in reducing fatigue (Cohen's d = 2.91, 95% CI 0.51 to 5.31, p=0.02). Self-directed CBT was found to have a large effect size in improving physical functioning (Cohen's d = -2.76, 95% CI -5.06 to -0.47, p=0.04). Subjectively...

Excellent. Thanks. :thumbup:

These four. I can take an informed guess at it, but would like to be certain. Thanks. :)

Yet another reason to mask up and stay vaxxed.

Is Michael Sharpe going to be issuing strong criticisms about these guys? Just asking.

What is the equivalent term to 'green washing' for what they are doing? Bio-washing?

I guess it could be useful for emergency firewood, and doing some quality control for your library.

better than ever, to be honest. I regard that sort of claim as a woo alert. Sometimes impossible, and you have to choose.

FFS, nobody is saying that. That kind of response is just doing the psycho-behavioural club's dirty propaganda work for them. They love to claim that we are dismissing patients with the FND label, for a recent example, as not having a 'real' illness/disease, just because we critique the FND...

Yep. They long ago forfeited any right to the benefit of the doubt.

One of the reasons for Helsinki protocols, et al, is because desperate patients are easy targets for exploitation. They exist for a very good reason. Safety rules are written in blood.

Second of three done. :thumbup:

Cue the 'we don't think it is a good idea as it might encourage patients with functional disorders to think they have a biological disorder' excuse not to check if the functional diagnosis is correct. Narrator: It wasn't.

Or malicious non-compliance.

and he stressed that their findings are not suggesting that CFS/ME is a mental illness. Nor is he saying it isn't a mental illness. Despite characterising it as that for decades.

Is there an English translation of it somewhere? Machine translation in the browser actually does a good job but can't do the material in the image boxes.