history

I wanted to make a general thread where we can discuss and collect evidence of how Psychiatry has tended to view phenomena (illnesses, lifestyles, personalities, sexual orientations, gender identities etc.) in the past. Especially of interest to make comparisons to ME/CFS and perhaps observe...

COVID 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting Five years after SARS-CoV-2 surfaced, scientists reflect and look ahead to the next threat https://www.science.org/content/article/covid-5-years-later-learning-pandemic-many-are-forgetting (I added some line breaks and bolding...

nb also a letter from Charles Shepherd. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1882994/ eta: I think it was in response to this Follow up of patients presenting with fatigue to an infectious diseases clinic, 1992, Sharpe et al. | Science for ME

I'm making what may be a doomed attempt over the next 8 months to complete the masters degree I've been on a leave of absence from for 4 years. I have to write a "capstone" (a short dissertation), and I've chosen to write it on Long Covid and ME. I'm going to have a brief overview of the...

Dr. Salit responds - PMC

Myalgic encephalomyelitis - PMC

"I have OCD. Cognitive behavioral therapy techniques made it worse" I have OCD. Cognitive behavioral therapy techniques made it worse (msn.com)

David J Black: Is anyone listening? Does anyone care? | Scottish Legal News

Substack Making sense of ME/CFS Melvin Ramsay, the Royal Free Hospital outbreak, and the evolving understanding of ME. Myalgic encephalomyelitis, 1955-1990 - by K. Johnstone (substack.com)

Around the mid 1850s, Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis and Florence Nightingale led the way in advocating handwashing to prevent infections, yet it took over a century for their practices to gain widespread acceptance. Meanwhile, John Snow challenged prevailing beliefs about cholera transmission...

New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry Second edition published 2012 https://academic.oup.com/book/24770 Chapter 5.2.7 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by Michael Sharpe and Simon Wessely https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199696758.003.0133 Abstract (paragraph breaks added) Chronic fatigue syndrome is...

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM194409212311203 September 21, 1944 N Engl J Med 1944; 231:414-418 DOI: 10.1056/NEJM194409212311203 subscription needed for access to full article.

https://archive.org/details/39002010195692.med.yale.edu/page/2/mode/2up I've not had the chance to read this, it's an early 20th century book about neurasthenia, that I'm told describes PEM without calling it that, and gives good advice. (Not sure where else to post this)

Threadreader thread by tapanui flu on Tapanui flu https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1686340525346193408.html

The “torpillage” neurologists of World War I: Electric therapy to send hysterics back to the front Laurent Tatu; Julien Bogousslavsky; Thierry Moulin; Jean-Luc Chopard The French neurologists and psychiatrists who were mobilized during the Great War were confronted with numerous soldiers with...

Are there any books or blog series particularly worth reading/videos or podcasts worth watching or listening to about the history of M.E./CFS? I've already read Osler's Web and Science, Politics and M.E. and am waiting on The Why: The Historic ME/CFS Call To Arms to arrive. I'm making my way...

Does anyone know when the old GP training video from Kings with Chalder/Gerada was published? Or any ideas how I could find out. The earliest I could find was this from 2002 https://web.archive.org/web/20021124114432/http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/Main/Publications/videos.html @Dolphin Thanks

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...

https://valerieeliotsmith.com/2022/07/05/the-poisoned-well-a-history-of-me-in-20-tweets/

(an old paper, mentioned on another thread here) Interventions for the Treatment and Management of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Systematic Review https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/194209 Penny Whiting, MSc; 1 Anne-Marie Bagnall, PhD; 1 Amanda J. Sowden, PhD; 1 John E...