

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.
1 hour ago8 min read
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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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Mindfulness Rebranded: Misappropriation in Modern Medicine
Welcome to this critical exploration of therapeutic uses of mindfulness and meditation in medicine. Together, we shall look at the skyrocketing of mindfulness in healthcare, examine its assimilation into cognitive behavioural therapy during its third wave, and unpack the influential role of Jon Kabat-Zinn.
May 2112 min read
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The Suzanne O'Sullivan Show
They will tell you that it’s progressive, groundbreaking, science pioneering into unventured territory...
Apr 1510 min read
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Stocktake Unveiled: Uncovering NHS Inaction on Long Covid and ME/CFS
Report reveals systemic neglect, missing data, and vanishing services
Apr 96 min read
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Frogs, Punks and Exceptionalism
Lessons learned 5 yrs after Lockdown
Mar 2512 min read
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