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https://www.open.edu/openlearn/money-management/management/leadership-and-management/managing/camelford/case/studygeneral I've been meaning to post this for over a year but kept forgetting. A case study that asks

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0brzl3w/wwis-secret-shame-shell-shock Interesting and moving in itself, interesting in parallels I saw with Me treatment - eg military believed it had to have physical cause and if not found (with technology available then) it was malingering and also...

Don't think that this has been posted before - I just found it while looking for something else: https://www.kingshealthpartners.org/assets/000/001/145/KHPJ5100_Psych_Med_Booklet_280317_WEB_Complete_original.pdf?1491471608 There are bits and pieces in the intro, eg: Oh dear... you've got two...

RSM The NHS at 70 Podcast: Episode 8: Prof Sir Simon Wessely, President of the RSM - The Challenges for Mental Health In this episode, Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Regius Professor of Psychiatry & Past President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, discusses the changing attitude towards...

I thought this was interesting as it shows Wessely not really answering questions from Mental Health Today about the Mental Health Act review. :rolleyes: https://www.mentalhealthtoday.co.uk/news/in-our-right-mind/simon-wessely-ect-is-in-my-own-advance-directive There are further examples, do...

The BPS Brigades Score Another Own Goal Not long ago, Sir Simon scored an own goal by enticing a childhood buddy to enter the PACE debate. That buddy, attorney and social commentator Mike Godwin, soon pronounced the trial—which Sir Simon had called “a thing of beauty”–to be “so profoundly...

I was going to post this on the thread where Simon Wessely was presenting Steven Hawking at some conference or other but I can't find it. I thought it might be a good link to post on SW or Michael Sharpes twitter feed, by anyone who has not been blocked (as they seem to be fond of linking to...

Don't know if ME will be a theme, but might be of interest nevertheless for some to be aware of: Medical stories and the public 12 November 2018 at Royal Society of Medicine, London For this special event, Stephen Fry, esteemed comedian, actor, writer, presenter, activist and expert...

" Applications for all levels of Round 11 of the Fellowships Programme have now closed. Five levels of NIHR Fellowship awards were available: Doctoral, Post Doctoral, Transitional Research, Career Development and Senior Research...

Just came across this worrying article by Simon Wessely where he uses his familiar rhetorical style to minimise issues surrounding the UK government's rather wide powers to intervene in the lives of those considered to have diminished responsibility (which includes PwMEs under some...

Transparency: Revision of NICE guidance on Depression

http://www.virology.ws/2018/06/18/trial-by-error-sir-simon-scores-an-own-goal/

" UKCRC Board The UKCRC Board is chaired by Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Scientific Advisor at the Department of Health, and is made up of representatives from all of the UKCRC Partner organisations. The Board meets twice a year and provides a forum that enables all Partners to work together to...

Came across this article on twitter, and noticed its been retweeted by Michael Sharpe. I suppose he thinks this is the best he can do right now as far as support for his "cause" goes. https://quillette.com/2018/05/24/come-attention-institutional-complaints-procedures-weaponized/ This author of...

I recently asked the Metropolitan Police Service about the existence of an 'activist list', alleged in an article by the late Michael Hanlon, that appeared in the Sunday Times Magazine in May 2013. Putting it briefly, I was told in two replies that I needed to supply "further information". I...

Prof Sir Simon Wessely is taking part in a three-lecture event at Seale Hayne, Newton Abbott, Devon UK. One of the lectures is on FND...........Functional Neurological Disorder............the new label given to UK ME patients. Can anyone attend? It is free...

"The Panel Consultant psychiatrist Sir Simon Wessely, sociologist Steve Fuller, and clinical psychologist Richard Bentall debate the value of psychotherapy." Just watched this discussion from about 6 years(?) ago. It actually goes more into the power of the psychiatrists both over their...

'Cargo Cult'; I came across this in the 'Magical Medicine: How to make a disease disappear' article" asking if PACE might be an example and that only time would tell. I'm inclined to think it (PACE) is along with the majority of the Wessely school 'research' (I am not familiar enough with all...

Ugh, as i checked the headlines this morning i was greeted by a large photo of Prof Sir Simon smiling with Kate.... right above an article declaring that "Gps too soft on back pain", bemoaning the painkillers & surgery given out, when really pwback pain need psychosocial treatments of therapy &...