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Is that "not" intended? It seems "de trop".

It might be reasonable to expect that they will not emphasise the psychoneurotic elements of any long term sequelae until the health of the Prime Minister is assured.

Some of us have memory problems and may have difficulty remembering which historical issues may be discussed, and which not. Is PACE still on the permitted list?

One can only hope that Holgate was not fairly reported. If he was, he seems to display the sort of "equipoise" that would be appreciated by those on one side of the debate.

It would be interesting to see if this pamphlet is in any way different to the 1995 Surawy paper - the one in which Sharp and Hawton almost managed to pass incognito by masquerading as Al. Perhaps another day. As Sharp did describe himself at one stage as a clinical tutor, it must be said in...

I have a theory about how this term "boom and bust"comes to be in use in descriptions of ME. It may be false. If one takes 1989 as the year of introduction of the term to ME parlance there was at that time much use of the phrase in connection with economic affairs and in particular the Nigel...

Boris should have had someone better draft the letter sent to everyone. Remember "Stay at home. Protect the NHS. Save lives" You are apparently allowed to travel for work purposes, but how that includes sitting in the passport office all day with your colleagues defies the imagination. Perhaps...

...but are you surprised?

Real men don't visualise masculinity and identity threat. If that doesn't make things "kick-off" nothing will.

Unfortunately it seems to be more complicated than that. The 1922 report makes it clear that there were cases of shell shock arising after percussive injuries, but that ancillary forces who had not been near the front line sometimes suffered the same symptoms. Some were malingering, some not...

I am not a fan of Stone, but think some of the criticism is a little unfair. I see no reason why he should not, knowingly, create a neologism using some metaphor if he wishes to indicate a belief that the end of the century sees us back to where we were at the beginning. Some may not consider...

Would you say that in 2018 it could reasonably be stated that CBT was a "highly effective treatment for CFS? Did not even its most ardent advocates make more limited claims for its efficacy by that date? That however is the claim mad in the tribute from Oxford. New and highly effective forms of...

I thought that was reasonably clear from the outset, at least from BBC reports.

One might have hoped that they were not so stupid as to have learned nothing in thirty years. Apparently they are.

This is an old paper, but of more than historical interest. I came upon it s significance by chance. Others might have, like me, seen no pressing need to explore the views of someone of whom they had never heard on the subject of CFS. They would have shared my error. Surawy appears to be a...

That was the foundation of the BPS entry into ME quoting the Imboden, Canter Cluff papers on chronic brucellosis from 1959 and Asian flu from 1961 and 1965. The "science" looks wholly dubious. That seems to have been the great rediscovery of 1987, but just who rediscovered the papers is as yet...

There seems to be a basic conceptual flaw in that sheet. Patient presents with MUS Either no patients present with MUS , or all patients present with MUS. A patient presents with as yet undiagnosed symptoms. That is why he/she has gone to a doctor. This is not the same as presenting with MUS...

Interesting idea. The term "mass hysteria" may have very different uses.. Panic buying of loo rolls does not lead to somatisation. So far as we know.

Amazing, isn't it? Medical staff dying of the virus and, as yet, we have not heard of any outbreaks of mass hysteria. There must clearly be a hidden problem. Perhaps we should send them some of our experts to advise.

Wasn't this Goldberg's great discovery. That illness consists merely of anxiety and depression... whatever the illness.