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Article to get you up to date here:
https://www.meaction.net/2018/10/19/join-the-fight-in-new-york/
This weekend, the New York State Psychiatric Institute is hosting a conference on psychosomatic illness at Columbia University Medical Center — and they invited Per Fink to speak. If you have watched Unrest, you know that Fink’s clinic was responsible for the involuntary institutionalization of Karina Hansen, a Danish young woman with ME.
Hansen was kept against her will for three and a half years. For the first year, she was forbidden to see her parents. She begged to go home.
When Fink’s clinic could not cure her, she was diagnosed with Pervasive Refusal Syndrome — a pathologization of her unwillingness to obey instructions she knew would make her worse.
Fink has a hypothesis that ME, IBS, Whiplash, Lyme, Fibromyalgia, and many other illnesses are psychosomatic. He groups dozens of illnesses together under the label Bodily Distress Syndrome (BDS). Fink’s clinic teaches doctors how to retrain patients, to convince them they have a psychosomatic illness.
This is what is being taught at Columbia on Saturday and Sunday at the New York State Psychiatric Institute’s conference, for continuing education credit.
The protest was this morning in New York City at Columbia University. Please read through the article, a lot has happened very quickly, but here's a super-swift summary:
-J
https://www.meaction.net/2018/10/19/join-the-fight-in-new-york/
This weekend, the New York State Psychiatric Institute is hosting a conference on psychosomatic illness at Columbia University Medical Center — and they invited Per Fink to speak. If you have watched Unrest, you know that Fink’s clinic was responsible for the involuntary institutionalization of Karina Hansen, a Danish young woman with ME.
Hansen was kept against her will for three and a half years. For the first year, she was forbidden to see her parents. She begged to go home.
When Fink’s clinic could not cure her, she was diagnosed with Pervasive Refusal Syndrome — a pathologization of her unwillingness to obey instructions she knew would make her worse.
Fink has a hypothesis that ME, IBS, Whiplash, Lyme, Fibromyalgia, and many other illnesses are psychosomatic. He groups dozens of illnesses together under the label Bodily Distress Syndrome (BDS). Fink’s clinic teaches doctors how to retrain patients, to convince them they have a psychosomatic illness.
This is what is being taught at Columbia on Saturday and Sunday at the New York State Psychiatric Institute’s conference, for continuing education credit.
The protest was this morning in New York City at Columbia University. Please read through the article, a lot has happened very quickly, but here's a super-swift summary:
- Per Fink was invited to speak at a psychosomatics conference hosted at Columbia University
- Terri Wilder launched a protest at #MEAction, asking he be disinvited -- 10K signatures and counting
- Multiple individuals wrote letters of concern, including David Tuller, Terri Wilder, and several others -- they all received the same, boilerplate response from the conference organizers
- Columbia's Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) issued a generalized statement saying they believe in the biomedical reality of ME
- Per Fink's hospital issued a press release style statement that aligned itself with CII's efforts, saying that psychosomatic theorists and Columbia work together to solve ME
- Ian Lipkin personally responded to the attempt to connect the two groups
-J