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http://www.virology.ws/2020/01/24/trial-by-error-cbt-and-irritable-bowel-syndrome/

https://bjgp.org/content/69/681/e262.short

Challenging the Cognitive Behavioural Therapies: The Overselling of CBT's Evidence Base Jonathan Shedler - Where is the Evidence for Evidence-Based Therapy? 23 Jan 2015 very interesting talk; many parallels with PACE. shows that CBT in fact has very little evidence to support it for any...

Not about ME but the general evidence basis for CBT. This aligns with work by Keith Laws, who regularly reports on CBT trials failing left and right and being shown to be no better than, well, nothing. There is growing evidence that ALL the evidence for the efficacy and safety of CBT is...

Link to the retracted study.

Open access at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2055102919840614

Open access at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2055102919838907

https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/02/new-book-deconstructs-ideology-of-cognitive-therapy/

https://corsius.wordpress.com/2019/02/16/how-fatigue-researchers-reason-away-zero-results-and-negative-findings-regarding-cbt-in-cfs-and-qfs/

Preview (abstract only) at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330901648_The_'Cognitive_Behavioural_Model'_of_Chronic_Fatigue_Syndrome_Critique_of_a_Flawed_Model

Probably a minority interest. I think the biggest concern with CBT for ME/CFS is the graded activity component. However, potentially other aspects may cause problems. Adverse effects from nonpharmacological therapies have not been studied as closely as adverse effects from pharmacological...

Keith Laws, professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology, University of Hertfordshire in The Conversation: Why CBT should stop being offered to people with schizophrenia Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, has in the past decade become a standard tool for helping people with schizophrenia deal...

This thread has been started as a place where reports from PACE trial participants can be recorded. Edit - the scope of the thread has since been widened to all CBT and GET trials.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09638288.2018.1481149?journalCode=idre20

https://www.madinamerica.com/2018/05/researchers-question-gold-standard-status-cognitive-behavioral-therapy/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29697324 (Not available on SH)

Free full text: https://bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40359-018-0218-3

Behav Sci (Basel). 2017 Aug 11;7(3). pii: E52. doi: 10.3390/bs7030052. FITNET's Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Is Ineffective and May Impede Natural Recovery in Adolescents with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. A Review. Ghatineh S1, Vink M2. Author information...

Hello all, I'm pleased to report that our major critique and reanalysis of the PACE trial has been accepted for publication in BMC Psychology. Title: Rethinking the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome—A reanalysis and evaluation of findings from a recent major trial of graded exercise and...

Free full text: http://www.openaccessjournals.com/articles/studies-and-surveys-implicate-potential-iatrogenic-harm-of-cognitive-behavioral-therapy-and-graded-exercise-therapy-for-myalgic-en-12190.html