Not ALL in Your Head? Think Again

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Not ALL in Your Head? Think Again

A Campaign Guide for the Bait and Switch Tactic

Jul 259 min read

The Choice of The Salt Path - Inspiration Porn or Malevolent Malingerer?

The divergent social perceptions that The Salt Path offered - Saint or Sinner - was never a fair binary for people with illness or, from what it seems, rooted in reality.

Jul 108 min read

The Danger of ‘Feeling Safe’: Long Covid and the Return of Psychosomatic Medicine

Whilst brain re-training programs are more universally recognised as being problematic in Long Covid and ME, these other psychological approaches often fly under the radar. It is important that we recognise them for what they are: medical gaslighting.

Jul 28 min read

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Behind the Biological Veneer: A Closer Look at the BMJ, SIRPA and Garner’s Framing of Chronic Illness

This article explores how cognitive therapies contribute to a dangerous medical paradigm for chronic illness. We shall focus on Paul, ‘he’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy’, Garner’s opinion piece for the BMJ and his appearance at the SIRPA conference. We examine the historical, rhetorical, and systemic forces behind mind-body medicine and how they obscure harm through compassion-washing, concept laundering, and misplaced optimism.

May 2213 min read

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Not ALL in Your Head? Think Again

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LONG COVID ADVOCACY BLOG

Not ALL in Your Head? Think Again

The Choice of The Salt Path - Inspiration Porn or Malevolent Malingerer?

The Danger of ‘Feeling Safe’: Long Covid and the Return of Psychosomatic Medicine

Behind the Biological Veneer: A Closer Look at the BMJ, SIRPA and Garner’s Framing of Chronic Illness

ABOUT LCA

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