What is not repoerted in Witapedia is Simon Wesselys association with the insurance industry..........
You may be aware that there is considerable controversy surrounding the subject of ME/CFS and that patient groups have acquired a reputation for being at loggerheads with a group of UK psychiatrists, collectively known as the Wessely school, who state that ME/CFS is a somatoform/functional disorder (i.e. psychiatric)
Somatoform / functional disorders have no scientific basis whatsoever. By contrast..."
He works for the insurance firm UNUM and for PRISMA, a firm that supply GET and GET to the NHS.
ReplyDeleteProf Peter White works for the insurance firm Swiss re and for the DWP.
It is in their financial interest to pretend that M.E. is a somatoform disorder.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDeu_OlMivU
ReplyDeleteYoutube ME Documentary "ME Still Not Taken Seriously" featuring an Ean Proctor interview about his cruel mistreatment at the hands of Simon Wessely "2mins 40secs in"
http://www.meactionuk.org.uk/consideration.htm:
"Before being referred to doctors in London, Ean had been subjected to terrifying ordeals: his local doctors did not believe in ME so they devised activities which were designed to prove that the child's symptoms were simulated. One such "distraction therapy" involved taking the petrified child on a ghost train in the expectation that he would cry out in fear on 3rd June 1988 Wessely had written a letter saying that Ean's inability to speak was " elective mutism").
Ean's parents turned for help to the Isle of Man Tynwaid, whose report on the case reveals even more horrors (ref. Report of the Select Committee of Tynwald on the Petition for Redress of Grievance of Robin and Barbara Proctor, 1,C April 1991). This official report states: "At the time, Ean could not keep his balance, his legs were getting weak, his speech was much slower, he found it difficult to read and he could not keep his concentration. He could not feed himself because he could not move his arms; he could not stand. He was subsequently unable to speak". The report documents that during one admission to Nobles Hospital on the Isle of Man, whilst "paralysed, he was put in the swimming pool with no floating aids whatsoever. Mrs Proctor said that at this time, Ean could not move a finger and could not speak. Ean sank under the water"
The link to Wesseley's website no longer exists...
ReplyDeleteMy name is Martin J Walker. I have been reading your blogs about Simon Wessely — they all seem very good. I have only glanced through them but I can't see any reference to my work so I thought I would comment. My book Dirty Medicine: Science Big Business and the Assault on Natural Health Care was published in 1993. This book is primarily about the first lobby group set up by the pharmaceutical companies in the UK, to defend 'evidence based medicine' and undermine all forms of complementary medicine. Wessely was a member of this lobby group, HealthWatch. In the book I wrote extensively about Wessely. In 2003, I published SKEWED (I won't bother with the 4 line sub title!) over a chapter in this book is about Wessely, all up to the minute original research helping to put him in his context. Just last Month I published a new version of Dirty Medicine: The Handbook which is a 20 year re-write of the original, it too has a good deal about Simon in it. I don't really understand why my original work on Wessely is not more frequently referenced and quoted from; it should be. For information about all my books visit my website: http://slingshotpublications.com, Best Wishes, Martin Walker
ReplyDeleteThx !!
ReplyDeleteMartin Walker's SKEWED: gob smacking good and scary at the same time