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I'm only quoting the book. Don't shoot the messenger. Some things seem to be known a priori.

These paaragraphs from Illness behaviour, operationaization of the biopsychosocial model by McHugh and Vallis seem significant The process by which nonspecific symptoms are erroneously labelled as disease has been called pseudo-disease (Helman 1985) diseasization (Kleinman see Helman 1985) or...

My interpretation is that it was these views which led from the disease centred conditions ME and PVFS to the purely illness behaviour model of CFS, falling happily within the domain of psychiatry. I will try to unpick this, but there are 400 pages of dense script, which is not ideal. In answer...

There seems to be an enormous lacuna in these discussions. I have to admit that I do not understand it. The discussion about the distiction between illness and disease informed much of the proceedings of a 1985 international conference in Toronto. The papers are published, at great expense, in...

There is, in Eisenberg's paper "Are psychiatric disorders real" in the book, an important sentence making clear his opinion of the chronic illness arising after brucellosis. These are the views which were apparentlylater incorporated into CFS. Referring also to "miner's asthma" he says: The...

Yes. I was quite surprised to find that mechanic was a professor of sociology. His first paper from 1960 or whenever it was seems quite reasonable for what it purported to be. The problems seem to me to have arisen with Pilowsky's "abnormal illness behaviour" which seemed to be a reworking of...

Makes you wonder whether he is in any way related to Jon Kaplan.

It is interesting to see the review, especially as it is in a sociology rather than a medical context. The approach in the book seems simplistic. There may well be cases appropriate for treating as abnormal illness behaviour, and perhaps the proffered treatments are relevant to them. Who...

Just the man we need. Didn't the devils of Loudun feature in the discussion at some points over the last fifty years.

I have come across an intersting term which may be part of this discussion. Benign symptom reattribution. In the acute primary care setting it has been shown that vague somatic complaints respond as readily to nonspecific remedies and the absenceof a disease label as they do to a specific...

In this paper from Barry Blackman and Mary Gutman of University of Wisconsin - The management of chronic illnss behaviour- one can see an early form of GET: Specific strategies to facilitate perception of control include the following. First the role of physical rehabilitation is crucial and is...

For any unfamiliar with the name Richard Mayou it transpires that he co-authored, With Gelder and Geddes, the Oxford textbook of psychiatry which is apparently a core text for students. His paper at the conference was "the use of illness behaviour concepts in psychiatry". EDIT this amazon...

As far as the UK is concerned it seems significant that there were only two contributors at the conference: Richard Mayou, from the Dept of Psychiatry, Oxford, and George Brown from Dept of Social Policy and Social Science, Royal Holloway. Issy Pilowsky was by this time in Adelaide. There was...

If you do, make sure you make time to to listen to his complaints afterwards.

I am not so blind as not to recognise that this is becoming tedious, but detail is and the ogre in all its manifestations is not yet slain. It is instructive to compare and contrast the two versions of Eisenberg's views, the one given at Toronto to the Illness Behaviour conference in 1985 and...

I lik the confidence of "these are unanswered questions that we will soon answer".

Here is the passage in the paper "Are psychiatric (EDIT) disorders "real"" by Leon Eisenberg in the book Illness Behaviour: a multidisciplinary approach by McHugh and Vellis 1987 in which the Imboden Canter Cluff model was brought into the formal illness behaviour narrative. This book...

One feature of this that is worth enquiring into is the status of the individuals involved. Apart from Eisenberg and Kleinman there was Leighton Cluff reminding the world of the existence of his beliefs with papers in 1979 and 1991. Then there was Goldberg in the UK. These all look to be...

It might also explain why the CDC, as well as the NIH, failed to take the condition seiously, or provide funding. And it no doubt accounts for why Goldberg appeared in reverence of Eisenberg's utterances in his one foray into print on the subject of PVFS.

This book represents the papers delivered at the international conference on Illness Behavior held in Toronto in 1985. It should not be considered out of date. It was reprinted in 2013 and so it must be assumed that it is still used either for teaching material or by practitioners. Illness...