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Perhaps he needs to work longer hours.

Don't be unkind to the man. All he ever wanted to do was to treat illness behaviour. How could he be expected to deal with effects of disease?

You have to evaluate the secondary gain involved.

How could Grinker say anyhing else? He received his degree in anthropology in 1989 (EDIT from Harvard). Presumably he must have been instructed by Kleinman. There are traditions to be maintained.

the update cites a “lack of evidence for the effectiveness of these interventions” despite the overall positive results of randomised evidence published since 2007.345 Since when has randomisation of evidence played a part in evaluation in scientific discourse? Perhaps the authors of the...

It's ok @Trish . The new protocols are functional, so they may not exist.

How could they know that long-covid could last a lifetime if they are not saying it is ananlagous to, or the same, as ME? Expertise by experience could only show them that it lasts up to about a year.

It never seemed to bother them that CFS was a heterogeneous condition when the recommended treatment was CBT and GET.

I am not sure whether this is the best thread for this post but as it addresses issues arising from early ME it might be. The question of exercise in the early stages has long been a point of contention. It was argued that we exercised and it did not help. We thought this was ignored by those...

I agree that there is some importance in this. It cuts off lines of retreat and should leave no position to which to fall back. I think it helps to show that the problem is much wider than thought and how subjects may be related. It does puzzle me that I don't recall any connection being made...

I was going to say that they need to pour cold water on this idea,and then beat it with sticks, but they might think it a sign of approval.

IT is interesting to see that the idea expressed by Ziegler, Imboden and Meyer and described by them as a "conversion reaction", alleged to occur in patients with chronic brucellosis, and thus, probably, by extension ME, provided protection for self esteem and alleviation of guilt turned up in...

Oh, goody. It seems to work for everything. Thanks @adambeyoncelowe . I now see that @dave30th is ahead of the game as usual Trial By Error: What Is the Dynamic Neural Retraining System? (virology.ws)

Anyone know what DNRS stands for in this context? Is the "Head Physician" a psychiatrist?

@Esther12 thanks for that link. It is most informative, but rather depressing. I'm sure that there will be a treatment for that. What I find significant is the suslicion that much of this can be traced through Shepherd. I am sure that he said that a major influence on him was Gilbert Ryle. It...

It was obvious to Ramsey; sadly not to those who came after him.

It all makes one wonder what it was that happened in the childhood, and general family experience, of those therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists which led them to hold such views.

Are you entirely sure that it is the ability to read a weather forecast that is in question?

But Robbins and Kirmayer ended up saying, "With more precise definitions of patient presentation, such measurement procedures may permit detailed study of the cognitive contributions to somatisation and psychologisation". It maybe that we are not sufficiently familiar with Karl Jasper's...

Too much muscle... ...between the ears.