Snow Leopard
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
Wessley is an expert in PR, whenever the methodology of his field is shown to be poor quality, he rebuts with irrelevant, yet persuasive arguments about how patients actually are trying to avoid mental-health stigma and why we believe in something called "mind-body dualism", that is a dangerous attack on the legitimacy of the field. Then he cites being subject to abusive comments on the internet as being unique to him, despite this being common across much of the internet (and especially if you are a woman with a bit of fame). Then again, perhaps he believes that since he is an upper middle class white man, that he should not be subject to the sort of abuse on the internet that anyone else who acquires a bit of fame is subject to?
(Of course anyone who actually listens to patients knows that the criticism of cognitive/behavioural approaches derives primarily from patients finding that they don't work as claimed, rather than any fear of stigma of mental health conditions.)
(Of course anyone who actually listens to patients knows that the criticism of cognitive/behavioural approaches derives primarily from patients finding that they don't work as claimed, rather than any fear of stigma of mental health conditions.)