Companion to Psychiatric StudiesEve Johnstone, David G. Cunningham Owens, Stephen Lawrie, Andrew McIntosh, Michael D. Sharpe * 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.
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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.
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



