psychogenic

NBC News article. I couldn't see this referenced previously on S4ME. As they say: "there's a lot to unpack". I wasn't aware of this story until its recent revisit, but I expect some of our American members will remember it well from the late-oughts. In summary: Desiree, a young, fit person...

In the coming months, the BPS brigades will attempt to promote their alternative model to people suffering from post-COVID-19 illness. There will be papers and editorials, but also less formal attempts at promoting various treatment approaches and a "different" way to think about long COVID...

I know central sensitisation theory is the new buzzword by many of the bps brigade, Per Fink refers to it a lot in his slides, and has no evidence. May I ask as well as I think them suggesting central sensitisation is the cause of pain in pwme, are they also trying to claim it’s the cause of...

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/dec/16/pokemon-explosion-tv-japan-children-hospital

Posts about the preprint of this paper that were on the psychologising Long Covid thread have been merged with the new thread on the paper now published.

Wilshire, Carolyn & Ward, Tony. (2015). Psychogenic explanations of physical illness: Time to examine the evidence. Perspectives on Psychological Science 2016, Vol. 11(5) 606–631. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27694458/ (paywalled) Abstract In some patients with chronic physical...

"David J Black explores the dangers of orthodoxy in the first in a four-part medico-legal series. “Orthodoxy” wrote Bertrand Russell “is the death of intelligence”. Before placing this in a medico-legal context with specific reference to the 2009 case Fraser and another v The National Institute...

Paywall, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S003331822030044X Sci hub, https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.psym.2020.02.003