Why the Psychosomatic View on [ME/CFS] Is Inconsistent with Current Evidence and Harmful to Patients, 2023, Thoma et al

It is also concerning that psychology students carry the misinformation re so called psychosomatosis into their subsequent lives, they may become parents, may go on to have family members who get misdiagnosed or labelled with any of the multiple 'conditions' under the psychosomatic umbrella. University psychology courses are a means of disseminating BPS disinformation into society.

 

To be fair the problems of psychosomatic medicine do not originate with trained research psychologists, but with other professionals, most of whom like Freud started from a medical training.

The problems with such as the current BPS research were well understood within experimental psychology when I was an undergraduate over forty five years ago, and there are research options to start to address them. Unfortunately psychology, with a few notable exceptions such as Brian Hughes, has stood back and allowed clinical research to disappear down this particular rabbit hole.

 

A Finnish translation of this article is available on the patient association Suomen lääketieteellinen ME/CFS-yhdistys ry's website:

https://slme.fi/wp-content/uploads/...n-nayton-kanssa-ja-haitallista-potilaille.pdf

 

From ME Research UK:

Sadly, some healthcare professionals still perceive ME/CFS as a psychological disease. A recent article provides a clear summary of why this view is inconsistent with the results of biomedical research

https://www.meresearch.org.uk/resea...le-still-think-it-is-psychological-in-nature/