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I realised there wasn’t a specific thread for the link between BPS/psychosomatics and sexism. So I’ve created one. The thing that prompted me to create this thread, was that I was looking at a review of “CBT for Cancer”, and noticed that CBT is very outproportionally studied in breast cancer...

Summary Background Psychoneuroimmunological mechanisms and the gut-brain axis appear relevant to disease activity and progression in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). A recent review showed no effect of psychological therapies on self-reported disease activity in IBD. This meta-analysis aims to...

Dissatisfaction with the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare's new knowledge support for post-infectious diseases such as ME and postcovid is simmering. Both healthcare professionals working with these diagnoses, researchers, and the patients themselves are raising serious concerns...

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Job advert on DWP site. Not difficult to see how they view Long Covid. Summary Be responsible for planning, reviewing and renegotiating programmes of care to promote health gains, maximise independence, recovery and reablement within a defined caseload in conjunction with the Long COVID Tier 3...

There was an ad in the newspaper DN.se today, inviting people to apply to participate in this study by Swedish BPS proponents Daniel Maroti et al (who are also running the MBS study). Not a recommendation, obvs. Känslofokuserade digitala interventioner för patienter med medicinskt oförklarade...

Note: There are two services in Oxfordshire dedicated to help patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): the OUH ME/CFS Service - and the Oxford Health ME/CFS Service. Website updated Dec 2021 Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Service...

Abstract In recent years, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has been engaged in activities to ensure parity of esteem for mental health within the National Health Service, seeking to bring resources and services more in line with those available for physical health conditions. Central to this...

Being sick with an illness that is difficult or even devastating is not understood by society, and therefore often misunderstood as some form of bad behavior or character flaw does not have treatments has uncertain prognosis with little prospects of improvement in the future will cause...

Seen the following article recently shortly after a sibling participated in a similar study https://mecfsskeptic.com/psychosomatic-history-of-multiple-sclerosis/ this too though much older - https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/t/mi...research-at-the-heart-of-disability-cuts/9260 shocking and a...

Note: There is also a members only thread discussing Reddit here Reddit thread on r/philosophy on the ethical questions involved in ME/CFS debate

Abstract The biopsychosocial model (BPSM) is increasingly influential in medical research and practice. Several philosophers and scholars of health have criticized the BPSM for lacking meaningful scientific content. This article extends those critiques by showing how the BPSM’s epistemic...

Prevalence of long COVID complaints in persons with and without COVID-19 Abstract We studied the prevalence and patterns of typical long COVID complaints in ~ 2.3 million individuals aged 18–70 years with and without confirmed COVID-19 in a Nation-wide population-based prospective cohort study...

I did not listen to this podcast. I’m flagging it because it’s a New York Times columnist and promoting a bps book, title of the column: this book changed my relationship to pain. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/opinion/17eks-ezra-klein-podcast-rachel-zoffness.html

Full title: Perceptions of the medical relevance of patients` stories of painful and adverse life experiences: a focus group study among Norwegian General Practitioners Abstract: Purpose Adverse life experiences increase the risk of health problems. Little is known about General Practitioners’...

The Rise and Fall of the Psychosomatic Approach to Medically Unexplained Symptoms, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Free fulltext (preprint) https://psyarxiv.com/jpzaw/ Citation: David F Marks. (2022). The Rise and Fall of the Psychosomatic Approach to Medically...

Overcoming the barriers to the diagnosis and management of chronic fatigue syndrome/ME in primary care: a meta synthesis of qualitative studies Kerin Bayliss, Mark Goodall, Anna Chisholm, Beth Fordham, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Lisa Riste, Louise Fisher, Karina Lovell, Sarah Peters & Alison Wearden...

https://citizen-network.org/library/biopsychosocial-model.html Biopsychosocial Model Or Bio-Political Ideology? Medically unexplained symptoms, welfare reform and the implications for Long-COVID Author: Joanne Hunt There is a growing awareness of the epistemic injustice created by the...

Norwegian: Fakta og myter om ME Google Translate: Facts and myths about ME It's the old arguments about how ME can be cured with cognitive therapy, that there's no scientific basis for harm from cognitive or graded exercise therapy and that IOM and NICE are not research do not represent...

Introduction Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS) are somewhat hidden in plain sight, a ‘central, strangely silent, area of medical practice’. [1] MUS are often talked about alongside contested illnesses, but unlike with MUS, a certain dissent is immediately evident when contested illnesses...