Psychological Assault : AfME and the proposed Bristol Lightning Process Study
Psychological Assault : a Stonebird response to AfME's position on the proposed Bristol Lightning Process study. Greg Crowhurst 23 Aug 2010 (Permission to repost) As it did over the NICE guidelines Action for ME has chosen again to take a lone controversial stand on ME, one not supported by the majority of UK ME Charities. Any clear understanding of ME can only be based upon a clear definition. It is difficult to find out the exact details of the proposed Bristol LP study , however if it is based upon the Oxford Criteria, then the Ethics Committee will not be able to discern precisely who the trial is for, as the Oxford criteria exclude those with neurological disorders . Used only by a small group of English psychiatrists (the Wessely-school) and by the university of Nijmegen, Netherlands (Neilson 2002), the Oxford criteria , by definition, excludes all those with authentic Ramsay-defined ME from study . (This...