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@Robert 1973 made that general point, although without specific examples,

https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/12/lobotomy-ulcerative-colitis-shameful-medical-history/ Horrible. The mind boggles at the sheer numbers of people who have been told they are to blame for their illness because of character deficiency and/or mental weakness.

I'm sorry to hear that, I hope she gets seen soon, and is OK.

Full paper, http://sci-hub.tw/http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1359105318781873

As there's some interest in mindfulness and relaxation techniques and practices, I thought I'd post this. What caught my eye was that the study used fMRI to compare and distinguish the effects on brain activity of each technique by using the same exercise for both (body scan). The article...

I hadn't heard this snippet before, https://www.omf.ngo/2018/06/13/robert-phair/

Written by James Thambyrajah, a UK GP, According to the 'About us' section of the site, https://t.co/iQGtkgxHRE

Well played Anil (@Grigor)!

A friend of Wessely's, previously unaware, wants to know about PACE. Wessely only tweeted him the link to the original work, although he is also interested in the dispute. Anyone feel like tweeting links to the special issue of J Health Psych, the Wilshire reanalysis and Tuller's blog to the...

I thought this was generally interesting, shedding some light, as it does, on how ketamine and psychedelics affect the brain structurally, and suggesting the possibility of new drugs for depression and anxiety based on these chemicals. Ketamine was also suggested and tried as a treatment for ME...

This seems a fairly trivial amount: the size of a portion of spinach, according to the UK government's 5-a-day strategy, is 80g, which shrinks when steamed to about half a teacup's worth, depending on how long it's cooked for. (I know this because I have to specify how much spinach to use or my...

This is taking disingenuousness to a new level. Why defend it so much if he thinks PACE is of no consequence?

I wonder how many people in general have not had stressors in the years before and after any arbitrary event, though.

From the blog "A Chronic Voice", https://www.achronicvoice.com/2018/06/03/stories-freedom/

An article in the Guardian, paid for by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. https://amp.theguardian.com/royal-college-of-psychiatrists-courses/2018/jun/05/psychiatry-the-medical-speciality-that-combines-empathy-and-science?

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1713258#

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05359-8

A long list of authors making this plea, http://sci-hub.tw/https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00699/full

The article, https://neurosciencenews.com/neuroscience-study-size-replication-9282 The paper, https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-018-0073-z

I'm not sure if this has been posted yet. Just published with the topic 'Mental Health'. (Emphasis added). https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/the-improving-access-to-psychological-therapies-manual/