The guy awarded this grant is a neurologist, not a psychiatrist.
I'm sorry if you've been traumatised by quackery but that doesn't make all psychiatry evil.
Yes but he is a neurologist who pushes flawed notions of "functional neurological disorders" one only has to read some of his stuff and the people he cites its shocking.
Where did you get the notion that I had "been traumatised by quackery". I'm sorry I really feel this is quite a cheap response to my post.
Yes, CBT and all sorts of bullshit is used daily in clinics all over the world. There are no better treatments at present.
Huh....!! How do you square this with the PACE study as one example of many, should we be subjected to GET and CBT as a proclaimed treatment because, "There are no better treatments at present"? Oh dear.
You are conflating what happens in the clinic with what's happening with people trying to come up with better explanations and treatments.
Don't you think what happens in the clinics is justified using "evidence" from poor studies, flawed studies, misrepresentation of data, conflicts of interests etc etc. Clinics are the downstream consequences of studies.
Billions upon billions have been spent on biomedical research to try and figure out what causes these brain diseases
That's highly questionable. At best they may take a look at the downstream effects of a condition and come up with some "justification" for CBT or the latest psychotropic drug. Makes you wonder whats happened to the "billions upon billions" of mostly tax payers money.
Thats exactly why Edwards has been brought into this MRC project its not to legitimise biomed studies its to legitimise the claim that the MRC is spending money on biomed studies when they are not. Yes they may throw some peanuts at the odd one but just watch how they spin them once they have his study published and "proof of the mental illness that exists in ME".
This is exactly what the National hospital does in London and he is definitely in with the National. Just take a look at this appalling link if you dare its truelly awful.
http://www.acpin.net/archive/Resources/ME - Functional Neurological Disorders.pdf
t's not for the lack of trying or malice or conspiracy or wanting to "drug children" or whatever.... but not much progress has been made because the human brain may not be smart enough to figure itself out. These problems are actually excruciatingly difficult.
None of this is an excuse for continuing with so called treatments and or studies that are at best useless and at worse harmful then continually backing them up with more deliberately flawed concepts as well as whilst ignoring biomedical proof that ones concepts are flawed.
Throwing in the "conspiracy" meme is problematic in response to critic of existing paradigms and status quo paradigms whilst over defending something which is obviously flawed from top to bottom.
Psychobabble isn't exclusive to psychiatry its used in other fields too as justification for lots of flawed ideas. However its route causes are in Psychiatry that's undeniable otherwise the range of people using it wouldn't be able to refer to the authority it has been given by the psychiatric profession.
This is how such utter nonsense forms the practice of things like the NICE guidelines, the public understanding of certain conditions, medical insurance justification, grant application/refusal, withdrawal of benefits, GPs understanding and referals, etc.
We could argue all day long over how many "good psychiatrists" there are and how many "bad ones" there are but the fact is its endemic that bad psychiatry has an enormous effect on all of the things I mentioned above and its effects are still deeply ingrained in the public consciousness and there are no shortage of Public Relations psychiatrists willing to continue the meme purely because of their own personal interests.
By the way, why do 5 million US school kids go to school on psychotropic drugs everyday by order of the state with their parents at risk of being accused of medical neglect if they refuse the drugs and intervention from CPS. Is it because there are no better treatments at present".
How exactly did we get to that point?