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Hughes & Tuller challenge study into CBT in a UK specialist CFS clinic
Response to Adamson et al. (2020): ‘Cognitive behavioural therapy for chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome: Outcomes from a specialist clinic in the UK’, by Brian M Hughes and David Tuller in Journal of Health Psychology April 10, 2021 [doi.org/10.1177/13591053211008203] … Continue reading
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Tagged Alastair Santhouse, CBT, CFS clinic, cognitive behavioural therapy, James Adamson, Prof Brian M Hughes, Prof David Tuller, Prof Simon Wessely, Prof Trudie Chalder, psychotherapy, Sheila Ali, somatoform
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Time for Unrest: Why patients with ME are demanding justice
Independent: Time for Unrest: Why patients with ME are demanding justice, by Nathalie Wright, 7 Jan 2018 A new film sheds light on a condition that is largely ignored. Nathalie Wright reports on the struggles patients face to be taken seriously by … Continue reading
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US lawyer challenges Wessely’s defence of the PACE study
The Faculty lounge blogpost, by Steven Lubet, 14 November 2016: An open letter to Dr. Simon Wessely, defender of the PACE study Dear Dr. Wessely: I was surprised to see the president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists post a … Continue reading
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Prof Hooper challenges value of CBT for ME
Article by Prof Malcolm Hooper, 15 October 2016: A response to Professor Fred Friedberg’s editorial about CBT Professor Fred Friedberg asks why cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is so vilified in the chronic fatigue syndrome community. He opens his Editorial by stating: … Continue reading
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Tagged CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy, Dr Fred Friedberg, MRC, Prof Malcolm Hooper, Prof Simon Wessely
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PACE trial results were grossly exaggerated
Occupy ME blog post, by Jennie Spotila, 21 Sep 2016: PACE: Grossly Exaggerated On September 9, 2016, Queen Mary University of London released data from the PACE trial in compliance with a First Tier Tribunal decision on a Freedom of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alem Matthees, David Tuller, Jennie Spotila, Julie Rehmeyer, ME Action, PACE trial, Prof Simon Wessely, Queen Mary University of London
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London NHS trust finds higher risk of suicide in CFS patients
Research summary: Background: Mortality associated with chronic fatigue syndrome is uncertain. We investigated mortality in individuals diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome in secondary and tertiary care using data from the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Biomedical Research Centre … Continue reading
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Tagged Dr Chin-Kuo Chang, Dr Emmert Roberts, mortality, Prof Simon Wessely, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, suicide, Trudie Chalder
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Wessely saga continues
In November Prof Simon Wessely was awarded with the John Maddox Standing up for Science honour. The prize was created by the journal Nature and the charitable trust Sense about Science (Prof Wessely is one of its advisers). It was … Continue reading
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Tagged Countess of Mar, Dr William Weir, Independent, John Maddox standing up for science award, Prof Malcom Hooper, Prof Simon Wessely, Sense about science
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