Some organization that calls itself (translated) "Association against quackery" is criticizing what is essentially the biopsychosocial model exactly as applied to us, seemingly unaware that this borrows entirely from, well, medicine. They don't seem to have noticed.
The therapists doing this all simply borrow straight from the BPS playbook. Don't even have to change anything. Medicine created the most potent pseudoscience by... creating their own. Ah well.
BMR Methods Confused Bullshit
https://www.kwakzalverij.nl/nieuws/bmr-methodes-warrige-lariekoek/
Dozens of therapists claim to be able to tackle psychological complaints such as burnout and anxiety disorders with BMR (Body Mind Release or Body Mind Reset).
The BMR methods could be used to treat psychiatric/medical disorders, the inventors claim without providing adequate evidence. And according to the BMR
treatment list of both inventors, we are talking about psychological complaints, burnout, stress, behavioral problems, PTSD, eating disorders, depression, anxiety and anxiety disorder and trauma processing.
These are unproven quackery claims in which untrained therapists move in often complicated medical/psychiatric terrain. Some psychiatrists consulted have not heard of either MMR method before, there are no serious studies into their effectiveness. The medical database
PubMed does not know either MMR method or their inventors, which reduces the credibility to zero.
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Both BMR methods are very similar to
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) , the technique that tsjakka-patatman Emile Ratelband brought from the US to the Netherlands in the eighties. Willem Levelt, now emeritus professor of psycholinguistics, branded NLP 'nonsense' in the magazine
Skepter twenty years ago . A label that should actually be stuck on both BMR variants.
It is therefore all the more strange that the official government agency UWV uses BMR therapists in the context of reintegration processes. We have previously written
on this website about the detested STAP scheme of UWV, which uncritically financed quackery. The only substantiation UWV has behind the application of BMR – the release variant – is an extremely high we-of-toilet-duck content study. We will come back to this later.
It is therefore not strange. Since this is all coming straight from psychiatry and neurology. It's official medicine, there is no longer any real difference between scientific medicine and alternative medicine, because everywhere science has not yet given answers, they created their own damn pseudoscience.
I don't see them realize the scope of what they've done for many decades, the blind are leading the blind to where the blind have been looping around for decades. It's a well-worn path, but paved on with the bodies of millions.
