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So basically he's playing a mind game with us. If all psychiatric conditions have a biological component, then NO condition is "all in the mind". What the general public is thinking when they hear "all in the mind" is a purely psychiatric condition. That's what SW thinks we have -- a purely psychiatric condition and he has said so. He knows that if he says, "I never said it was all in the mind" the general public will hear, "I never said it was a purely psychiatric condition." So he has his cake and eats it too.Actually, very few academic psychiatrists including Wessely would consider mood disorders to be "all in the mind". They have a significant biological component. So this quote wouldn't get you very far I'm afraid.
I wonder, though, if his words are getting enough play in the general (and more usefully, scientific) public that more people than just PWME are starting to think :thumbdown: because you can only play that manipulative game so long before people start to see things are not adding up. Until now he's been playing to an audience who wants his nonsense to be true, so they're willing to overlook the... er... inconsistencies.
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