It is extremely dispiriting to have to respond to yet another wail of desperation from psychologizing dead-enders who have lost control of the narrative over the nature and treatment of ME/CFS and long Covid. This
most recent screed, published last month in the
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, has been written by a group calling itself the Oslo Chronic Fatigue Consortium—a collection of dozens of self-styled “experts” that includes Norway’s Lightning Process queen, Live Landmark. In other words, in this article, these folks have all linked themselves to a woo-woo “mind-body” intervention developed by British osteopath and spiritualist Phil Parker, who has claimed he can “step into other people’s bodies…to assist them in their healing with amazing results.” He also once co-led a course on the use of auras, Tarot cards and related approaches to achieve better health. (I’ve often wondered why, if these modalities were as helpful as claimed, why he bothered to with create the Lightning Process in the first place.)
In essence, Landmark’s presence as a co-signatory suggests that the Lightning Process is more or less equivalent to standard approaches like cognitive behavior therapy and graded exercise therapy. Whatever! (Do they all understand that the recent decision to remove a patient from Norway’s ongoing LP study because she dared to express concerns about the approach on social media is an admission that you have to commit to believing the process will work in order for it to actually work? Is that science?)
