psychosomatic medicine

Abstract Background NHS specialist chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME) services in England treat approximately 8000 adult patients each year. Variation in therapy programmes and treatment outcomes across services has not been described. Methods We described treatments provided by 11 CFS/ME...

Open access, https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/19/7184/htm My bolding.

Recently I watched two Derren Brown shows, 'Miracle' and 'Miracles for Sale'. They're mostly focused on exposing how "faith healing" is performed, but tbh it gave me a lot of insight into how things like the Lightning Process can result in people believing that they work. I'd recommend watching...

Not a recommendation http://thebiomedicapk.com/articles/819.pdf ORIGINAL ARTICLE Mental Health and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Is Mental Health the Culprit Behind Your Fatigue?

Open access, https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/camh.12421

Does psychosomatic illness exist? We all know that ME/CFS is NOT psychosomatic. And we know that a lot of studies into psychosomatic stuff (like MUS stuff) are bullshit. But I would like to know, is there any good quality research indicating that psychosomatic illness exists? Any type of...

Author list: Maria Kleinstäuber Christine Allwang Josef Bailer Matthias Berking Christian Brünahl Maja Erkic Harald Gitzen Mario Gollwitzer Japhia-Marie Gottschalk Jens Heider Andrea Hermann Claas Lahmann Bernd Löwe Alexandra Martin Jörn Rauk Annette Schröder Johannes Schwabe Jeanine Schwar...

Open acces, https://www.dovepress.com/psychiatristsrsquo-understanding-and-management-of-conversion-disorder-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-NDT

https://www.ruh.nhs.uk/patients/services/clinical_depts/paediatric_cfs_me/documents/Resources_for_Clinicians_and_Healthcare_Professionals/CBT_for_CFS_Therapist_Manual.pdf link found here...

Full title: Fatigue-Related Cognitive-Behavioral Factors in Survivors of Childhood Cancer: Comparison with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Survivors of Adult-Onset Cancer Paywall, https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/jayao.2020.0094 Sci hub, https://sci-hub.tw/10.1089/jayao.2020.0094

via Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks

We are all familiar with the two McEvedy and Beard papers which appeared in the January !970 BMJ. Less familiar is the third paper published elsewhere in 1973. There has been little attention paid to the Editorial which accompanied the papers. It does little credit to the journal or its editor...

Full title: What scientific evidence do the current classifications have in order to assess occupational disability in patients with central sensitisation syndrome? Abstract in English, full paper in Spanish. Paywall, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1138359320302616...

Rethorn ZD, Pettitt RW, Dykstra E, Pettitt CD (2020) Health and wellness coaching positively impacts individuals with chronic pain and pain-related interference. PLOS ONE 15(7): e0236734. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236734 Abstract:

Improving teaching about medically unexplained symptoms for newly qualified doctors in the UK: findings from a questionnaire survey and expert workshop https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/4/e014720 I picked up on this from article in this thread...

More interesting stuff from Goodelf, a two part article on MUS https://opposingmega.wordpress.com/2020/08/19/so-what-if-23-get-worse-2/ Part 1: The PCPCS – a ‘One Door’ Approach to MUS By Goodelf https://opposingmega.wordpress.com/2020/08/19/so-what-if-23-get-worse/ Part 2: One Door, One...

Only abstract available. (ETA: Sci-Hub: https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.explore.2020.07.014?fbclid=IwAR0YNqy05-GBsEU4v5h1ylqVsUP8g4eGGbK9ISXiH-cAZbFlEeuoMO4YVGk ) Journal: Explore - The Journal of Science and Healing A Systematic Review of the Evidence Base of the Lightning Process...

Peter White (ed.) 2005: Biopsychosocial Medicine, An integrated approach to understanding illness. Oxford University Press https://global.oup.com/academic/product/biopsychosocial-medicine-9780198530343?cc=de&lang=en&# Links to this conference and book have been posted on different threads...

Due in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/132955332/pdf_proof_re_submit.pdf https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/cognitive-behavioural-therapy-for-chronic-fatigue-and-cfs(67b43c92-f30b-4e21-a7b6-1b94e2ead525).html

Very troubling study by prof Knoop et al. "ONDERZOEKSVRAAG To investigate whether delivering timely Cognitive Behavioural Therapy [CBT], an evidence-based treatment for chronic fatigue, is effective in preventing the development of post-COVID-19 chronic fatigue. URGENTIE A substantial...