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Interesting, long piece in the New Yorker Challenges to the legitimacy of the profession have forced it to examine itself, including the fundamental question of what constitutes a mental disorder. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/27/the-troubled-history-of-psychiatry

I thought it would be helpful to present in an organised form links to these papers, mentioned on another thread, which are fundamental to an understanding of the BPS approach to ME, and which should be read by those wanting an understanding of how we got to where we are. The papers usually...

Source: Frontiers in Pediatrics Preprint Date: March 19, 2019 URL: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2019.00131/abstract Advances in ME/CFS: Past, Present and Future -------------------------------------------- Kenneth J. Friedman1 - Kenneth J. Friedman, Medical School...

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/rise-and-fall-of-the-biopsychosocial-model/A31DAA3BED6569F6080A1DF2C1D15A64/core-reader

https://bjgp.org/content/68/677/579

The late Dr. Ann Macintyre's Frontline television program from the 1990s.

This is a video from an event yesterday from Bateman Horne Center; November Education Meeting: Setting the Standard of Excellence First dr. Bateman talks about the history and development of their center. Then she introduces two brand new doctors at the center, Neilly Buckaloew MD and Brayden...

You will, from time to time, have seen references to "abnormal illness behaviour" in connection with ME or CFS, and these will no doubt have cited the various papers by Mechanic on the subject of "illness behaviour". It seems that this is not quite the full story. There appears to be a lacuna...

For anyone interested in how things got going leading down the current path of BPS. It's a long article and sadly I did not read the whole thing. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5795290/

September 18, 2018 article in the Globe and Mail about how the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was developed. Interesting, as the developers started this at their kitchen table - an informal start, having no degrees in psychology or psychiatry. According to the author, professor Merve Emre...

"In the following discourse I shall endeavour to shed light on how, and perhaps why, a serious disease has not been taken seriously for nearly half a century. The disease is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. Many people think it is the same thing as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome but I shall also explain why...

I'm currently working my way through this tome, so thought I'd start a thread on it so that anyone else who has read it (and those who haven't) can join in and discuss it here. The symposium was held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 12-14th of May in 1992. The publisher's description of the...

This was a neat comic based on Maya Dusenbery's book "Doing Harm" The Dark History of Hysteria Jennifer Brea shares some reflections in this thread on Twitter.

Jim Al-khalili’s subject in his ‘The Life Scientific’ programme on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday, February 14, was Professor Sir Simon Wessely. I thought given the new research into ME and Gulf War Illness this would be of interest. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08dnr3g " Gulf War Syndrome. So...

I wasn't sure where to post this. It is not a term I'm familiar with. Perhaps others can decide whether many of the people who had been diagnosed with it could have had ME/CFS.

From FB: " Greg Crowhurst 21 August at 08:03 · ME: THE FATIGUE COVER UP Further to my question here on Facebook, "What is ME", I have now compiled the responses into this brand new publication, which tries to show just how desperately ill people really are. It is a very powerful document...

While reading the Ciba Foundation Symposium 173 papers (Wiley, 1993), I came across this quote from Peter White in one of the discussions (after Sharpe's presentation on Non-pharmacological treatments - p310): And thus, CBT/GET was born! However, I looked back at David McCluskey's...

Halp. Looking for a resource on this? I'll start the hunt through Phoenix Rising, but if someone has it handy, I'd really appreciate it.

This was an interesting read about a part of our history we don't much care to acknowledge. The article tells the story about the Norwegian psychiatrist Augusta Rasmussen (1895-1979). She studied children who had been sexually abused, and found that it had minor, if any, effect for most of...

Paywalled at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11673-018-9866-5