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Absolute bullshit. Nothing he enjoys more than trying to provoke and wind up sufferers and their supporters with his unpleasantness.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswqtv BBC podcast, 23 minutes.

That's the same reason given for not allowing ME sufferers to donate blood in the UK. Seems to be a tried and tested line of bullshit. I'll be happy to go halves on a pantomime horse costume with anyone who's up for it. Scary thread title by the way - I thought the World Health Organisation...

That's nice of them. I agree, it's a "must" read.

It was a reply to @JemPD's question (which I quoted for the avoidance of confusion) about the therapist's therapeutic orientation, with a link to her therapeutic orientation (hermaneutic psychodynamic psychosocial blah blah), and another link to a thread where her therapeutic orientation is...

It's actually worse than that, and upon reflection now I realise I could horrify forum members a whole lot more with some of the things I've learnt, but I still like to try to maintain a veneer of confidentiality and professionalism by not gossiping out of turn.

Not wanting to horrify anyone further, her actual words were "The therapist patient relationship is like a love affair, which can only work if the patient allows themselves to be vulnerable". I think I must have let my usual poker face slip, because she then back-tracked / clarified by saying...

Well you asked for it: https://www.opd-online.net/clubdesk/www?p=100234 All is revealed in this thread here: https://www.s4me.info/threads/wish-me-luck-everybody.341/ Wow - has it really been a year?

A few rambling thoughts from this week ... Yesterday I was teaching English to my favourite psychotherapist and we got on to the subject of the patient / therapist relationship. She expressed the view that the patient has to accept the therapist as a parent figure for there to be any progress...

Good.

Michael Sharpe's debating technique:

I think it is extremely important to judge everyone's commitment to upholding the Nolan principles, based on the information available. AfME seems to be suggesting that we should ignore all the information available (dismissed as "selected information found online, anecdotal accounts, and their...

BBC website today: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46027702

When I have to fill in forms at the dentist etc I have adopted the benevolent lie of leaving the "other medical conditions" box blank. Fit as a fiddle me, thanks for asking. Just get a bit tired sometimes.

Can't I say steaming pile of ... Oh well :(

This is quite good on the latest WHO development: https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/10/04/the-world-health-organization-embracing-traditional-chinese-medicine-pseudoscience-in-icd-11/

There seem to be a few posts on the subject on that blog: https://respectfulinsolence.com/?s=TCM

You didn't miss anything language-wise, "earlier" is just as unspecific for native English speakers. It just means previously, recently, before. Probably in the last day or so given the context, but only @Andy knows what it really means :unsure: ETA: just noticed Andy said "earlier on", so that...

I'm afraid I've been having the opposite thought - if they are not announced as members, then they have been effectively silenced by being kept on tenterhooks until the end of the process. But as you say, neither of us has any idea. I wonder who does know what's going on?