Yes, this is widely known amongst patients at UK CFS clinics, and the pyschs while lying to our faces will happily discuss it behind our backs - there are published papers on the subject along with books like the one in this thread.
It's quite bizarre, the hiding in plain sight almost. A sign of people who believe themselves to be basically untouchable.
If anyone can get hold of the full paper, I think they talk about the conning people onto antidepressants here
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11144910