An exploration of victim blaming in ‘medically unexplained symptoms’: Neoliberalism and the need to justify the self, group and the system - Jo Hunt.

Only abstract free:
https://rb.gy/ar8bg

In this article, Hunt argues that "Narratives within mainstream psy disciplines around ‘medically unexplained symptoms’ (MUS), as constructed through (bio)psychosocial theorising, have been charged with promoting victim blaming."

#mus @mecfs #mecfs #cfs #pwme #biopsychosocial

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'Media silence on the politics driving 'one of the biggest medical scandals of the 21st century'
by
Joanna Hunt

https://www.healthcarehubris.com/post/media-silence-on-the-politics-driving-one-of-the-biggest-medical-scandals-of-the-21st-century

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Tom:
There are a few slightly "difficult" words in this but I think it should be understandable for people who, say, finished high school/secondary education or equivalent. My impression was it gets a bit easier to read as it goes along

#psychobabble @CFS #biopsychosocial #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME
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@CPE @CorneliaWeise

The #ICD-11 includes a new #chronicpain section. #AntoniaBarke et al. introduce new #pain diagnoses that are now based on the #biopsychosocial model and highly relevant for #clinical #psychologists.

https://doi.org/10.32872/cpe.9933

@CPE @CorneliaWeise

#KirstinGreavesLord et al. present innovations of the #ICD11 in the field of #AutismSpectrumDisorder. The psychological approach provides additional viewpoints from #biopsychosocial models and the #neurodiversity perspective to the medical model of #ASD.

https://doi.org/10.32872/cpe.10005

I want to start a conversation about the relationship between #biopsychosocial factors, #information pathways, and perceptual experience.

Also, I need to clear my white board.

Let me know what you think, ask for clarification, send help, etc.

This is a really useful overview of the BPS - #biopsychosocial model, that has dominated how the UK has tried to frame #MECFS since early 2000's, and why #PwME and other chronic illnesses are left rot by both the health and social systems.

https://www.healthcarehubris.com/post/summary-structural-dimensions-of-the-biopsychosocial-model

It shows the links between the psych lobby, government and health insurance companies, who had a vested interests in how MECFS was framed as psychological, and not physiological.

Hopefully this is all going to finally be overturned this coming Wednesday, 18th August, when NICE finally publish the new Guidelines on MECFS - which should finally remove the damaging GET/CBT 'treatments'.

It's useful to know this history, particularly as it is also a warning to how the psych lobby are moving onto patients with #LongCovid, as the MECFS cash cow is finally being overturned.

Source: https://twitter.com/HealthHubris (a patient with ME, who wrote this)

#Disability #ChronicIllness

@MECFS
@ChronicIllness