A Framework for Understanding the Pathophysiology of Functional Neurological Disorder, 2020, Hallett et al

Paywall, https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...cal-disorder/C37DBE94BB9BDD90CDEBF7640EAF7D0D
Sci hub (PDF), https://sci-hub.tw/10.1017/S1092852920001789

 

Shame on Cambridge University Press for publishing this kind of drivel.

https://www.cambridge.org/about-us/who-we-are/press-syndicate

I think they need a governance update to bring them out of the 17th century.

 

There has, in fact, not been a considerable understanding of FND. I don't know why people keep pretending otherwise, other than escalation of commitment, because it's clearly not the case. Everything remains a total mystery, in large part because of the obsession for a psychological etiology, an entirely baseless and aimless proposition. It's an advanced delusion to continue to claim that BPS factors are of any relevance here, this has been tried to death. The death of patients, not researchers, but to death nonetheless.

This is literally what the patients who have been dismissed to the conversion disorder black hole of confusion have been asking and this is mutually exclusive with the obsessive focus, at the exclusion of all other factors, on psychological etiology. Other than the unnecessary obsession with BPS BS, obviously. Just the pathophysiology, otherwise you are wasting your time. Other than for clinically relevant factors, of course, but so far no discipline seems capable of taking up that task, all thanks to the complete sabotage and confusion of the damned conversion disorder ideology.

GROW. THE. F. UP. You made assumptions. They are wrong. Move on. In fact, move along and leave this to the people willing and able who have been pleading to work on precisely this for decades. There are no etiological "biopsychosocial" factors. GROW UP. Move along. Shoo. Shoo! You are bad at this job. Very, very bad.