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First rule of Psychworld: Deny error in proportion to the error and its consequences.

To explore perceptions of... ...GPs It's perceptions all the way down.

for patients where routine diagnostic methods of medicine do not explain their problems and conventional therapy does not meet with the desired effect, a consistent psychosomatic approach is a necessity. 'If we cannot find a cause and do not have an effective treatment, it must be...

Future research should focus on education and standardized guidelines to enhance patient care. A better start might be identifying physicians with these appalling attitudes and throwing them out of the profession.

Not even that much. It is 'true' for no more reason than they want it to be. Because if it isn't, they are completely discredited, and unemployed.

“I am excited to see what therapies develop as a result of this study and expand our knowledge of treatment for this condition.” There are some words in this game that I regard as warning signs. A researcher/clinician being 'excited' about their latest idea is definitely one of them.

"Psychological disorders are just as real as physical disorders you guys." Good thing nobody is arguing otherwise, and never have. The argument has always been about misdiagnosing, and hence mistreating, conditions as psychogenic when they are in fact biogenic. But apparently that is too...

Certainly not suggesting it is all cases, or even most. But I don't think we should rule it out at this stage. If anything, the evidence so far suggests to me that it is quite likely to happen in a significant number of cases. Which would also include some people who stay in that prodromal...

From the study abstract: "Public transfers started increasing several years before diagnosis and stabilized at a high level after." Now that is interesting. It suggests two non-exclusive, and maybe synergistic, possibilities: First is that the diagnostic process is inadequate and so is...

I agree. We have to point out both internal inconsistencies in their model itself, and external inconsistencies with the evidence/data. Not in order to persuade the psychosomatic club to change their position – they have made it very clear that they are a completely lost cause, and are going to...

Banning masks. :facepalm:

I can picture the article titles: Terminal diagnosis as self-fulfilling prophecy. Immortality through denial. Acceptance of death: Psychosomatosis par excellence?

Not sure we can say that for certain. It is possible – I think actually quite likely – that there is a more subtle pattern going on in pre-onset health status for many patients that actually shows sub-par/optimal performance which is being masked by other factors, including lifestyle...

I am strongly of the view that a huge chunk of back pain (and probably some other chronic symptoms) can be managed, and sometimes eliminated, by better mattresses, chairs, and footwear. In particular customised ones. All the engineering & materials tech exists to do it, but it hasn't made it...

-Failure to account for placebo effects Failure to account for heterogeneity in different confounders being lumped together under the placebo banner. Plus some repetition. But otherwise a useful list.

Did they test if the correlations are with being online, and willing to take part in online health surveys?

Proof: Death comes to us all. With no exceptions. Cue some twit trying to argue it is only because of culturally ingrained expectations of death.

It does. Thanks.

Arbitrary causal attribution is arbitrary.

And intra-personal? i.e. dynamic/transient but still significant & relevant changes in the body? Could that be a confounding variable? Appreciate your feedback and engagement here. You will not find a more motivated group to find the correct explanation and best therapies (or at least...