Thanks Cort for this article!!! I'd like to add one more study to your list of Straus publications - namely the infamous 1989 study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (Kruesi M, Dale J, Straus SE, Psychiatric diagnoses in patients who have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome).
The abstract reads in part,
"The authors used the Diagnostic Interview Schedule to assess the lifetime prevalence of psychiatric disorders in 28 patients who met Centers for Disease Control case definition criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome. Compared with studies of the general population and studies of chronically medically ill patients who received the same structured interview, the rates of psychiatric illness in patients with the chronic fatigue syndrome appeared high. An examination of the medical histories of the 28 patients indicated that psychiatric disorders more often preceded the chronic fatigue than followed it."
This study generated a lot of unfortunate media headlines, thanks to a press release by NIAID titled "Lifetime history of Psychiatric illness in people with chronic fatigue syndrome".