ixchelkali
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Brace yourselves. Sept 30th is the release date for the new textbook "Medically Unexplained Symptoms, Somatisation and Bodily Distress: Developing Better Clinical Services," edited by Francis Creed, Peter Henningsen, and Per Fink. There are chapters by our old pal Peter White, and lots of references to papers authored by Simon Wessely.
Chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and irritable bowel syndrome get full play.
A preview of the book is available at Amazon, by clicking on the cover, where it says "Click to look inside". Then you can do a search for chronic fatigue syndrome, if you like.
http://www.amazon.com/Medically-Unexplained-Symptoms-Somatisation-Distress/dp/0521762235/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313281276&sr=1-1#_
Just think, we can look forward to a whole new generation of students learning that these illnesses are somataform disorders.
Oye. I can hardly wait for the book reviews. The BBC should have a field day.
Chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and irritable bowel syndrome get full play.
"ICD-10 includes neurasthenia (chronic fatigue), as one of the somatoform disorders. This is considered here as chronic fatigue syndrome under the heading of functional somatic syndromes."
A preview of the book is available at Amazon, by clicking on the cover, where it says "Click to look inside". Then you can do a search for chronic fatigue syndrome, if you like.
http://www.amazon.com/Medically-Unexplained-Symptoms-Somatisation-Distress/dp/0521762235/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313281276&sr=1-1#_
Just think, we can look forward to a whole new generation of students learning that these illnesses are somataform disorders.
Many of the perpetuating factors for the functional somatic syndromes are psychological. Persistent worry about having a serious illness, hypervigilance to bodily symptoms and the tendency to catastrophise in relation to pain, a strong conviction of an underlying physical disease and an expectation that the illness will have marked adverse consequences, are all recognised in this context.
And I suppose that means they can justify cutting "illness-related financial benefits" as therapeutic. It doesn't seem to occur to them that the more seriously ill might be more apt to be receiving disability benefits.Among patients attending a neurology clinic with rather more sever medically unexplained symptoms, persistence over a year occurred in two-thirds and this was associated with a patients belief that they would not improve, a failure to attribute the symptoms to a psychological cause and the receipt of illness-related financial benefits.
Oye. I can hardly wait for the book reviews. The BBC should have a field day.