Companion to Psychiatric Studies

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Eve Johnstone, David G. Cunningham Owens, Stephen Lawrie, Andrew McIntosh, Michael D. Sharpe
Elsevier Health Sciences, Sep 1, 2010 - Medical - 864 pages
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* 2011 BMA Book Awards - Highly Commended in Psychiatry * A new edition of a classic textbook now published for the first time with colour. Covering the entire subject area [both basic sciences and clinical practice] in an easily accessible manner, the book is ideal for psychiatry trainees, especially candidates for postgraduate psychiatry exams, and qualified psychiatrists.
  • New edition of a classic text with a strongly evidenced-based approach to both the basic sciences and clinical psychiatry
  • Contains useful summary boxes to allow rapid access to complex information
  • Comprehensive and authoritative resource written by contributors to ensure complete accuracy and currency of information
  • Logical and accessible writing style gives ready access to key information
  • Ideal for MRCPsych candidates and qualified psychiatrists
  • Expanded section on psychology - including social psychology - to reflect the latest MRCPych examination format
  • Discussion of capacity and its relationship to new legislation
  • Text updated in full to reflect the new Mental Health Acts
  • Relevant chapters now include discussion of core competencies and the practical skills required for the MRCPsych examination
  • Includes a section on the wider role of the psychiatrist - including teaching and supervision, lifelong learning, and working as part of a multidisciplinary team (including dealing with conflict, discipline and complaints)
  • Includes new chapter on transcultural aspects of psychiatry
  • Enhanced discussion of the use of the best current management options, both pharmacological and psychotherapeutic, the latter including CBT (including its use in the treatment of psychosis) and group, couple and family therapy.

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This authors of this book continue to victimize people severely ill with a debilitating organic illness, ME/CFS, by spewing their fake science claiming it is an illness with "physical symptoms but without bodily pathology". Countless scientific studies have shown the organic nature of the illness and, yet, the authors of this book are completely ignoring the vast evidence proving them wrong. Michael Sharpe, are you in denial or are you just demonstrating a total disregard for the patients you are "treating" and "studying?" It is simply UNTRUE that "bodily pathology" has not been established in the case of ME/CFS. Every real scientist who has studied the disease will be happy to explain that to you.
Psychology and psychiatry have their place if they are practiced responsibly. However, given the unscientific and untrue nature of some of what's stated as fact in this book, acting responsibly doesn't seem to have been on the authors' agenda.
 

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Knowingly Misrepresents ME as a Psychiatric Disorder:
Editor Michael Sharpe is up to his old tricks here, knowingly misrepresenting the devastating neuro-immune disease ME/CFIDS as psychiatric
. Sharpe came up with a patently invalid definition of "CFS" called the Sharpe/Oxford 1991 CFS definition which defines "CFS" as nothing more than idiopathic CF. He and his colleagues then have done many studies using this fake definition to back up their claims that "CFS" is really a neurotic disorder. This is obviously circular reasoning. Here he classifies ME under "other neurotic disorders" (pp. 487 & 716). If Dr. Sharpe corrects the info I will be sure to change this review.
Here is the authoritative journal article on ME:
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Clinical Working Case Definition, Diagnostic and Treatment Protocols
http://www.cfids-cab.org/MESA/ccpccd.pdf
-Justin Reilly, esq.
Boulder, CO
 

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