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A.B.

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Looks like Wessely and White have taken elements from Max Banfield's approach (I did not see a precise description on this page but I'll assume it's similar as claimed), as well as Graduated Exposure Therapy (the latter for treating phobias).
 

chipmunk1

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who cares? These "therapies" are just common sense and won't work well for most anway.

Banfield seems to be more intelligent than Wessley as he does not believe the root cause is psychological. I suspect the latter just views the illness as an anxiety disorder because almost anything that shows unexpected or seemingly dramatic reactions to minor stressors in absence of a known medical case is an anxiety disorder in medicine. No research or proof needed.

They aren't very creative when it comes to this.

So what is the standard treatment for anxiety?

Exposure therapy. Since exercise causes (phobic -( because dramatic and medically unexplained))reactions, patients must have an exercise phobia. Logical.

When Wessely got started the most popular treatment for anxiety was graduated exposure therapy.
 
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ahmo

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@chipmunk1 I don't know if your sig quotes are new, or I've just never read them.

Patients are nothing but riff-raff....Man creates his own illnesses for a definite purpose, using the outer world merely as an instrument...or anything else that will help him pile up his woes
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