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Psycho-tyranny.

Matching expectations and goals with limits and circumstances is necessary at a strictly practical level for everybody, not just patients. It is something all humans do every day as a matter of course. It is not a formal therapy requiring research and expensive gate-keeping 'experts' to guide...

It is now beyond dispute that technical and ethical self-governance in the psych branch of medicine (especially psychosomatics) has broken down, to the point where it is clearly incapable of fixing itself and will need externally imposed intervention, including considerable input from outside of...

I am not comfortable with anonymity. Transparency seems particularly important in this situation given the history of how decisions have been made about us, without us. That said, there can be good reasons for it in some situations too. Just not sure this is one of them.

And there is the problem. If this was just a few rogue individuals it would be (relatively) easy to stop it. Problem is that virtually the whole field is soaked through with these methodological shortcomings, to the point where many in the field don't even see that there is a problem, or at...

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And that is the nicest possible interpretation that can be made of it.

So they don't feel any moral obligation to help the disabled, is my cynical take on it.

The output of the psychosomatic advocates tells us far more about what is going on in their minds than it does in the minds of their patients.

And ME in particular would be one of the worst possible choices you could make to get attention and (alleged) secondary gains.

So, how does that work with the whole 'ignore your symptoms and push on through' thing?

+1 :thumbsup: Getting it more openly discussed and debated, and on the record, is a critical step.

Seems relevant:

@adambeyoncelowe Outstanding. Thank you. One for the history books. :thumbup::hug: That last sentence might be ambiguous to the uninformed reader. Suggested: But when only unblinded subjective outcome measures are used then the results become much less reliable. (I would argue strongly that...

Thank you for that excellent thread. :hug:

A clear and concise description of the 'benefits' of most psycho-behavioural therapies.

Such certainty in the face of so much uncertainty. :grumpy:

This is worth saying again: