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It may be that matters have not changed greatly on the recovery front. In 1993 McCluskey said: "Of the CFS patients that we have studied about 16.8% seem to recover from this illness.....So about 17% of the population of patients seen in a major teaching hospital seem to recover. It may be that...

I suspect that the origins for the claims with which the original enquiry was concerned lie in the paper Sharpe M, Hawtpn K, Seagroatt V, Pasvol G 1992 Follow up pf patients presenting with fatigue to an infectious diseases clinic. Br Med J 305:147-152 I have only seen the abstract, bit it...

If you were scientifically inclined would you not wish to know how those who did not participate in the follow up were sit between the four groups. Perhaps that is addressed elsewhere, but it was not obvious I the article.

Sharpe says "patients beliefs that the symptoms of CFS are evidence of disease, particularly viral infection, and that any activity which exacerbates symptoms should be avoided, are potential causes of disability and distress" quoting Sensky T 1990 Patients reactions to illness. Br Med J...

On further reflection the earlier post shoed the real beauty of the BPS approach. SE was referring mot to something said by Sharpe in the discussion nut to comments in his paper. He referred to "a well conducted case study of out-patients.........The improvements in many cases were marked and...

@Barry I have edited the post to include a quote from the abstract. I am not sure that amateurish is le mot juste.

I thought that these quotations ought to be added, presumably uttered within fifteen minutes of each other. Wessely: "Thinking of Weir Mitchell and George Waterman reminds me that neurologists aren't what they used to be any more! You were in fact too kind to our study, Dr Sharpe. This was not...

Given that the leading researchers are sufficiently intelligent to understand that acceptance of money from the DWP would inevitably prejudice the objectivity of the exercise, it does seem strange to have accepted such a sum.

It all sounds very familiar to me. The only points to make are that 37 years have passed and the b....... still have not learned.

I wonder whether the missing link between Sharpe's CBT for CFS and Gelder is Hawton They co-authored: Follow up of patients presenting with fatigue to an infectious diseases clinic. Sharpe M, Hawton K, Seagroatt V, PasvolG 1992 Br Med J 305 147-152 Hawton had earlier written: Cognitive...

I am not entirely surprised at the difficulties. In a study of this sort which must involve NHS resources,one suspects that there must be notional costs and internal accounting. I do not know whether anyone familiar with NHSaccounting has commented on this.

He was acknowledged in the paper by Sharpe setting out the Oxford Criteria as one of those assisting with funding of the meeting. His interest in the subject remains unclear.

Eureka. Now I see that the use of the Sunday Times mock-up was legitimate defence of science in the post-truth era. Such a shame we have not moved with the times. Or even the Sunday Times.

Perhaps it is all a coded message to indicate the view of insiders that psychiatry has not progressed beyond the middle ages.

Perhaps they did not hear of the Muppets.

I know nothing about that. But perhaps it explains the failure of GET. What they need is prizes.

I do wish someone would do a survey to ascertain what proportion of research psychologists report results in a coherent and meaningful manner. To the ignorant it appears that 50 of the 45 people studied had above normal levels of anxiety.

Is the prospective new treatment Graded Shopping Therapy? You start off on the first aisle at Waitrose -I don't suppose they shop at Tesco -and buy the end of the course they'll have you running up and down all of them and making it through check out. I can almost remember what it was like to do...

There is only one problem with the deconditioning model. It is wholly incompatible with the evidence. How can it be that when you have a relapse and spend days in bed or sofa-bound strength gradually returns? When you are strongest it dissipates.

Fair cop, gov. I'll come quietly.