Fatigue and the mind-body relation: A Lacanian exploration, Diserholt, 2020 (PhD thesis)

Who is her mentor?
Edinburgh has form on this kind of stuff .

 

Honestly that's borderline unfair for real PhDs who actually have to work to earn their degree. What a joke.

 

I added the bolding and underlining.

The rigorous criteria. We just complained to the MD and he handed over a diagnosis.

 

I could understand, just, if the author had critiqued the Workwell findings of a damaged aerobic system leading to an overreliance on anaerobic respiration with all the problems that brings.

Instead, all the scientific findings are ignored so she can say that there is no medical reason for our fatigue and then make up fancy psychological insights into why the fatigue exists.

"The sun in summer is not hot so so called "sunburn" must be a self induced painful skin condition due to a protestant work ethic that means we self punish as we feel guilty about being on holiday."

 

File under post-modernist nonsense.

 

written diarrhoea by someone lacking the intelligence inclination to do any real research into the physical part of disease this standard arguement written from privilege = the slaves are lazy while we spend our days faffing about .

 

Sadly this is a belief system laid bare ...

 

"Piled higher and Deeper"

 

Oh, this made me smile:

I never realised capitalism was a the root of all our suffering!

You will also smile at this bio of Dr. Diserholt's supervisor:

Lacan's "Ecrits". "aporetic divisions" The sheer pretence of it all!

I used to be against de-funding of the humanities, but this thesis makes a persuasive case in favour.

 

An interesting dialectic exercise.
Of course capitalism is the root of all our suffering - but mostly because it encourages billionaires to lounge on their yachts in Monaco while laid off workers go penniless.

The job of professorial leader for research degrees presumably goes to some stooge who is struggling to get brownie points any other way, but it does rather make a mockery of quality control.

What is a bit worrying is that this thesis comes from the department applied sciences!

 

I also note that the thesis and supervisor are not part of Edinburgh University but part of an institution that is ranked in the bottom 200 of all world universities. The worrying thing is that it seems to specialise in training nurses!

 

Personally, I think that if ME/CFS were caused by a desire to escape from the pressures of life, the adult prevalence rate would be closer to 100%, rather than less than 0.5%.




I haven't watched this, but here is the author discussing her work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCrnUGvstXA

 

Better than psychoanalysis wouldn't you say?

 

I'm shocked by how ableist this is and how the author apparently has absolutely no idea it is so.

 

I wouldn't trust this woman to clean my bathroom.