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I don't doubt there are psychosocial factors that contribute to poor health, physical and mental. Including misdiagnosis and mistreatment by perverse applications of the psychosocial paradigm.

"It is remarkable how easily injustice can be accepted if it is being inflicted on the right set of people."

By his interpretation of his experience.

It's a turf war.

One could be excused for thinking this is a deliberate strategy by those in power trying to discourage people from even being on the books at all.

Only to those who were not paying attention.

This.

This. It has become too important to be allowed to fail.

I am guessing it is not the first time in history either.

Yeah, that was a real WTF? moment for me too. Like when I found out that pre-LC he had been in the psychogenic camp. o_O Do I have empathy for Garner? Some. Do I have any sympathy or respect for him now? None whatsoever. He and the system that fails to reign him in are an utter disgrace. :mad:

Yep. Their dishonesty and cowardice is a fucking disgrace.

And the highly problematic nature of the conceptual and empirical basis for the FND diagnostic category.

They are deliberately identifying the biases that 'work' for their approach and maximising them. They are selecting outcome measures on the basis they give a positive results, and rejecting ones that don't. They are setting up a 'methodology' that does not allow them to be wrong. They are...

About 15 years ago I was told by quite a few (outside the ME community), including some doctors, that my concerns about what was happening to our (Australian) social security system was just catastrophising, and it wouldn't happen, that we would never be treated that badly. Well, as anybody...

Clearly the grand BPS project is too important to be allowed to fail.

Previously posted related study: https://www.s4me.info/threads/wessely-and-double-blinding.8342/

That is encouraging.

Wessely has perfected the art of speaking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time.

And shared responsibility for the consequences?

I fear many clinicians will simply see it an issue of better bedside manner, a better sales pitch, while not actually doing anything much different from what they want to anyway. Not even sure a 'shared' decision makes much sense in this context.