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It is hard to know to what he is saying "absolutely". Is it "are there differences?" or " perhaps patient groups should come together"?

Going back to a point that @dave30th made earlier about the interchange of ideas from one side of the Atlantic to the other and the complexities involved in understanding developments I have found more about Barry Blackwell, co author of the Illness behaviour paper. It seems that before becoming...

I have siad on another thread that there was a paper presented by Barry Blackwell and Mary Gutmann Of University of Wisconsin at the 2nd international Conference on Illness Behaviour held in Toronto in 1985. This was published in 1986 in a book edited by McHugh and Vallis. Most of the elements...

Well, I asked for the one with the microchip. The wife thinks it might help in finding me if I fail to return from a dogwalk. They wouldn't confirm that I was getting it.

It may not be entirely fair to blame only Straus for the change of direction. It was from Eisenberg interpretation of "chronic brucellosis" and "chronic mononucleosis", relying on Imboden Canter and Cluff that the British psychiatrists appear to have learned their trade. There seems to be...

How you decide about this matter probably depends on the starting point you take. If the starting point is 1988 then the UK will superficially seem to have greater responsibility. The interesting period is that between, say, 1955 and 1988 when the US was probably leading the way.

The question that needs to be asked is "has the puzzle been solved?", and, if so, are we just not being told about it.

Perhaps they should be allowed but only on condition that the psychiatrists or therapists provide responses to similar questionnaires to enable the patient to assess whether the "caregiver" is of suitable disposition, character, experience and qualification to reasonably provide for the...

@petrichor I think you are being unduly generous to him. He explicitly distinguishes between long covid and other post viral conditions including CFS and attaches his, or should that be our, battery metaphor only to long covid. It is quite possible that he "misspoke" and did not have the...

Hsan't strain recently been quoted as being a researcher on ME/CFS, and thought to be reasonably sound? God help us.

It is hard to be certain, but it appaears that the words quoted were probbably extracted from the response to a Parliamentary question. It might be itersting to see the original. It could be that the full response is rather more nuanced. On the other hand...

There seem to be two things wrong with that paragraph. The grammar suggests that covid rather than the department is supporting the inspectors. What possible evidence could be produced to support the claims as to permanence or reversibility?

Do they have a large Metaphysics Department in Hamburg?

That has never stopped them in the past.

If the speculation that Shorter started his research on psychosomatic illness in 1985, how serendipitous that the 2nd International Conference on Illness Bhaviour should have taken place in Toronto in August !985. The eager young, or not so young, medical student would have been able to hear...

How I became a historian of psychiatry: Edward Shorter – h-madness (historypsychiatry.com) This article about Shorter gives some information about him. It appears that he went to Toronto shortly after obtaining his PhD in 1967. After publishing his book Womens' Bodies in 1982 he undertook two...

I suspect that because he is supposedly a historian rather than a physician Shorter is sometimes thought to be the source of the historical material relating to neurasthenia. It would be interesting to look to see whether he had any original thoughts on the subject. The Wessely paper preceded...

Details of Shorter's biography seem surprisingly sketchy for a professor. One can learn that his PhD was from Harvard and that he became holder of the Hannah Chair of History of Medicine at Toronto in 1991. From the preface of one of his books on Amazon he seems to have been at Toronto in 1989...

There is an interesting discussion in the CIBA conference papers. SW said that he and PDW could distinguish between post viral cases and CFS cases. The ensuing debate was not entirely helpful, but it was an interesting starting point. Ramsay also wrote, in the MEA magazine, about distinguishing...

That is one interpretaton. It may be the American interpretation. I do not know. What is reasonably clear is that in the UK theterm PVFS was used to avoid the word encephalomyelitis which was seen as problematical. The description by Behan in 1988 is reasonably clear. PVFS was ME that developed...