wessely

Hardly a new paper, but I can't see this paper as a title on any existing thread. It's interesting to read Wessely himself state that they found no evidence for CFS/ME patients having negative attitudes to psychiatry, nor for having a particular 'perfectionist personality': Sci-hub link...

full details here: https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/lshtm-120-keynote-lecture-alumni-frontline-innovation now on Youtube: oh the irony

Modernising the Royal Society of Medicine: We Speak to its President-Elect September 13, 2019 full article here https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/918344?src=130919_expert_kirby_onc&faf=1

Hello all, I am very familiar with the ICC, CC, CDC vs Oxford criteria discussion, prevalence differences, Oxford obfuscation, etc. but I have a very specific question about what the Wessely crew mean by "CF" vs "CFS". This is not merely academic and is of consequence for important ongoing...

The mystery of screaming schoolgirls in Malaysia 11 August 2019 full article here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-48850490

Before the approval of the PACE trial there were several similar failed submissions to the MRC - only when they added "Specialist" Medical Care and I think the involvement of Action for ME was the trial approved. Can someone point me to the rejected / failed trial applications? I *think* I...

Havana Syndrome: U.S. and Canadian diplomats targeted with possible weapon causing brain injury and neurological symptoms CBS News/60 Minutes main story/video https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brain-trauma-suffered-by-u-s-diplomats-abroad-could-be-work-of-hostile-foreign-government-60-minutes/ CBS...

Likely followed by a talk on vaccine safety by Andrew Wakefield and a panel on the scientific method sponsored by Goop.com and NaturalNews. The talk is the pros and cons so I guess it's worthwhile debate to involve people smearing, bullying and insulting patients trying to engage with health...

I just came across this, from 2015: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/29/coercing-people-mental-health-problems-work-treatment Which I completely agree with, but was surprised to see Wessely saying it. Isn't it his sort of work that gets used to refuse benefits to ME/CFS...

The Royal College of General Practioners (RCGP) is having its Presidential election soon. https://www.rcgp.org.uk/about-us/news/2019/may/rcgp-announces-seven-candidates-for-college-president.aspx There are 7 candidates... Could we canvas & lobby the the candidates for their views on matters...

Jim Al-khalili’s subject in his ‘The Life Scientific’ programme on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday, February 14, was Professor Sir Simon Wessely. I thought given the new research into ME and Gulf War Illness this would be of interest. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08dnr3g " Gulf War Syndrome. So...

https://dpac.uk.net/2019/03/biopsychosocial-lobby-and-right-wing-media-attack-pwme/

I often get the impression that Prof Simon Wessely, Prof Michael Sharpe and others from the Wessely School of psychiatrists prey on naive young journalists. I suspect these psychiatrists are using their skills in psychology to butter up the journalist, perhaps over a few beers in a bar, playing...

This is a repost of something I wrote about 8 years ago, but that post appears to have been damaged, images lost, etc, so I've attempted to rebuild it as Chalder has just cited this study misleadingly in her lecture on her 30 year career...

http://askforevidence.org/articles/ask-for-evidence-ambassador-launch

Posting this from Wessely in a 2009 interview, because it shows that he clearly understands the importance of double-blinding subjective outcome measures and controlling for the placebo effect, and is happy to (selectively) invoke this standard when it suits him to further his psychosocial...

Ugh. Have you seen this new piece @dave30th ? "Conclusions mFND patients have distinct demographic characteristics compared with psychiatric controls. Experiences of abuse appear to be equally prevalent across psychiatric patient groups. This study establishes the socio-demographic and life...

see me-pedia page: https://www.me-pedia.org/wiki/Intimidation_of_PACE_critics These are not directly related to PACE but still applicable (IMO) Letter from Countess Mar to Professor Simon Wessely 4th December 2012 please cut and paste your relevant posts here.

http://www.niceconference.org.uk/about "challenging views", is that code for "completely wrong views"? Or perhaps "views that he has no actual proof for"? Anyway, full agenda here, http://www.niceconference.org.uk/agenda

Article by Elizabeth Davis https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/feeling-stressed-join-a-choir/ Can't help feeling he'd like to do that research on us! :rofl: So it's not just us that has a belief that we "have a disorder".:sick: