Psychotherapeutic Interventions in Irritable Bowel Syndrome, 2020, Hetterich and Stengel

Open access, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00286/full

 

Yeah I had to look that one and having looked at it it's frankly even more puzzling.

This is completely self-contradictory. BPS assumes no pathophysiology, it's literally the whole point.

THE treatment? There is no treatment. That's part of what makes it all so problematic.

Important to you does not mean objectively important. Especially here. You are not a brain in a jar somewhere living a simulated universe that exists for your personal existence. This is borderline failing at object permanence.

Of all the lowered standards I have seen, this is the lowest of them all. Lots of treatment options for all bunches of things exist. Treatment options exist for your thetans imbalance or your karmargone ratio disruption.

I have the very lowest expectations for BPS research and still I am continuously amazed at how those expectations keep getting lower and lower, a kind of asymptote reaching the limit of negative infinity that still manages to eke out that smallest increment of more mediocrity without fail.