Who is Simon Wessely?

Yeah, that's right he helped develop a treatment programme that made an awful lot of people worse and his work increased the stigma that patients face even today.

 

Oh lord, SW does know how to put it about doesn't he.

 

I am quite happy to contribute to any crowd funding to cover the cost of the boat charter transporting him to the said desert island.

 

And preferably to a desert island in a galaxy far far away!

 

Well the publicity machine is out in force

 

Someone mentioned this in an ME Facebook group today, and people were suggesting songs that he could select.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgpZ0fUixs

 

Does this man do anything with his life other than maintaining media relationships?

 

But only so long as it is one-way.

 

Yeah.....poor misunderstood Sir Simon.

 

Just a little rewrite of history all that is needed ...

 

Who are these 'groups' of which he speaks, if they are not patients? Sheesh.

 

So basically individual patients are lovely, because they just have 'hysteria'. If individual patients are allowed to talk to other patients, they develop 'mass hysteria', which is much worse and horrible and scary. It's like putting water on a mogwai.

 

So I guess that's when they become what Wessely called 'groups'.

 

Perfectly understandable, for someone who doesn't like or understand people, not even notional people.

So not people per say, more the idea of people, seems to be what concerns him.

In much the same way I am unusually happy to be around a beef burger, but even the idea of being in the middle of a stampeding herd of several billion cattle would concern me.

He may be in the wrong job.

After all, who would choose to have any involvement at all with loads of pre-burgers that have their own opinions, and can answer back and object to the very processes that couldn, if done by a professional, lead to them having success, as burgers.

 

I've done a transcript:

 

Thanks for the above transcription @Lucibee.

I really didn't want to listen, but it's interesting to read this.

 

Something else you got wrong then.

What about the phrase (& I am paraphrasing here) "the only thing wrong with these people is their belief they have an illness called ME"?. Forgotten that have we?

Subtle repositioning - it wasn't his patients who had a problem. No, it was the public. Because we believed these patients were ill and nobody else did.

*snorts derisively*

 

Thanks Lucibee.... I hope it's not painful for me to now mention that there's an auto-transcript available here: Transcript of Professor Sir Simon Wessely from Desert Island Discs podcast | Happy Scribe Public

It will definitely be inferior!