EXHAUSTION: A History, 2016, Schaffner

EXHAUSTION A History
Anna Katharina Schaffner
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Schaffner_Exhaustion_A_History.pdf

This book has generated negative publicity in the past.

 

Chapter 10 completely mischaracterises the experiences of ME/CFS patients and Nasim Marie Jafry in particular who was unaware that her work had been mischaracterised in the book until I told her about it. Nasim also had prior interactions with the author and tried to explain such experiences to her, but seems to have been completely ignored in the writing of the book!

 

I see Wessely being thanked. So it's one of those books, uh?

 

And Felicity Callard, a long covid patient who wrote this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7539940/