Evaluation of LiNES: A New Measure of Trauma, Negative Affect, and Relationship Insecurity Over the Life Span in Persons With FND, 2019, Levita et al

Paywall, https://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.19050121
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Real scientists try to prove themselves wrong because they care about getting it right.

Mediocre scientists fish for everything that hints at proving themselves right, because all they care about is being recognized by their peers as being right.

The most amazing part is that it obviously follows that sicker people will face more problems in their lives, even more so when they get no support, rather than the other way around, Occam's razor and all. But it's so much more interesting to catch smoke with a net than finding the fire, I guess.

Somehow, the movie was not even the worst thing involving CATS in the last few days.

 

Let's say that emotionally traumatic events or whatever does causally predispose to FND or other conditions. It doesn't follow that anything to do with ongoing emotional trauma perpetuates the condition, nor does it follow that any psychotherapy will be beneficial.

With that in mind there is therefore no useful information to be gained from these studies; the only clear consequence is that you bug people into thinking about whatever awful things happened to them. Of course people will just interpret any result to mean that psychotherapy must be beneficial.

 

It also misses the glaring fact that childhood abuse involving being slapped round the head or malnutrition or neglect leading to developmental delay can cause neurological problems directly without involving the emotions.

Being in a car crash bangs the brain about, relationship problems can cause self neglect or increased smoking which lowers blood oxygen levels or increased drinking which damages brain cells.

Lets assume direct brain damage before we invoke black box emotional processes.