Viewpoint: “It’s All in Your Head”—Medicine’s Silent Epidemic

Wait, I was told only butthurt malingering activists were criticizing Fink's research. How could that be?! He has an award for this and everything.

 

It is interesting to see that article in the BMJ and see the reference to SSD

In DSM-5, the focus shifted to “excessive” responses to distressing, chronic, somatic symptoms with associated “dysfunctional thoughts, feelings, or behaviours.”

That looks suspiciously like the "dysfunctional cognitions and maladaptive behaviour" which Wessely et al decided was fundamental to ME in, I think it was, 1991.

 

Is this true in the same sense that a person born without a bum can still talk out of their arse?