wessely

In light of recent events I thought this was important. " In England and Wales, you can be detained in hospital against your will if you are diagnosed with a mental health disorder and it’s deemed that your health would benefit from a stay in hospital. In 2007, the definition of ‘disorder’ in...

Raised on another thread. https://dpac.uk.net/2018/02/protest-against-iapt-therapies/ I have mixed feelings about this. "The Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy has organised a demo at the New Savoy conference again this year. The New Savoy Conference is the annual gathering of...

The connections between government and the insurance business in their joint project to reduce eligibility for sickness benefits. https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/sites/default/files/s36_04rutherford.pdf " In November 2001 a conference assembled at Woodstock, near Oxford. Its subject was ‘Malingering...

Oxford criteria - should papers using it be excluded This is a subject that has been raised a lot, so I thought it might be good to have a thread. I only recently started looking into it a bit further than the basic diagnostic criteria. see...

I thought this was worth reposting for people who may have missed it at the time. He says "the PACE trial remains an excellent trial and a model of how to deliver a complex intervention RCT." What's most worrying about this is that he was President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and had...

http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/jnnp/52/8/940.full.pdf Journal ofNeurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry 1989;52:940-948 Fatigue syndromes: a comparison of chronic"postviral" fatigue with neuromuscular and affective disorders S WESSELY,* R POWELL This is an old paper and has no doubt been...

I have only just become aware of this and although I suspected that the SMC connection(ie SW) was at play with regards to Channel 4 News, Channel 5 News and ITN (who actually are in charge of all three) (for me)this confirms it. " The Royal Society of Medicine presents '21st Century Healthcare'...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4967779/ I'm sure I've discussed this paper previously, but seeing others complaining recently about how bad the 1996 CFS report was made this line stand it. Is it publicly acknowledged Wessely took a lead with that? That was before my time, but...

This leads on from a discussion elsewhere, so might seem odd out of context, but there you go. https://www.lrb.co.uk/v20/n16/sarah-rigby/diary I was just reading this letter from Wessely, and thought it was of interest, as he now will now emphasise how different Showalter's views were from his...

Following on from Nathalie Wrights article in the Independent. "Actually, I think this has been coming for a long time, but it just might have happened this morning in the UK online newspaper, The Independent. The public conversation has shifted about the biopsychosocial model of myalgic...

http://www.margaretwilliams.me/2017/thirty-year-retrospective.pdf The incalculable contribution to medical science of Regius Professor Sir Simon Wessely: a thirty year retrospective. Margaret Williams 28th December 2017

Note that this is not a new study. Full text at http://sci-hub.bz/10.1017/s1352465800015241 Chalder T, Butler S, Wessely S. In-patient treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy 1996, 24; 315-365. I don't recall seeing anything published about in-patient...

Doctor wins 2017 John Maddox prize for countering HPV vaccine misinformation The Guardian Previous winners include the psychiatrist Simon Wessely, who faced death threats for his work on chronic fatigue syndrome and mental health, and Elizabeth Loftus, whose work on false memories propelled her...

The PACE trial is a very large (n=640) and well conducted (1 year follow-up rate of 95%) multicentre randomised study, funded by the Medical Research Council, Department of Health and Department of Work and Pensions, and ironically also the Scottish Chief Scientist’s office, and one of whose...

You may have heard of it? At the other place, some of us wrote a word or two about it. I thought it might be good to have a thread for PACE chats, or for new people to ask questions, that didn't necessarily relate to important new papers, or anything that warranted a new thread. I could post...

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/QZ8BV3T?platform=hootsuite

ICYMI Sir Professor Simon Wessely got all misty eyed on Twitter James Coyne was not impressed

'Wessely has consistently promoted the unsubstantiated suggestion that ME is caused or maintained by patients’ false illness beliefs and abnormal behaviour. As a result, the integrity of patients’ experience of this devastating illness been destroyed as their testimony is deemed unreliable...

I don't know any of the signatories. https://www.thecanary.co/discovery/2017/10/18/dozens-leading-professionals-just-slammed-theresa-mays-controversial-new-mental-health-guru-letter/ PS/ I'll ask to put this thread in the psychosocial news when it's open.