The glass cage

Fleming, Clare

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“…1 Fortunately, especially for patients, knowledge has grown with time. A number of other names have been used for this condition most notably Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), the term preferred by the majority of doctors and researchers.…”

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“…In 1994 Flemming, a British doctor who had retired because of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) stated, "medical training had not equipped me to understand ME". 1 Fortunately, especially for patients, knowledge has grown with time. A number of other names have been used for this condition most notably Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), the term preferred by the majority of doctors and researchers.…”

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Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: A legal guide to the perplexed

Villiers

2005

South African Family Practice

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Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: A legal guide to the perplexed

Villiers

2005

South African Family Practice

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Definitionen des „Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” (CFS)

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The definition of "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" (CFS) in 1988 was an attempt to establish a uniform basis for the previously heterogeneous approaches to research of this severe and inexplicable state of fatigue. At the same time, researchers wished to narrow down a pathogenetically founded disease entity a priori by specifying precise disease criteria. The empirical data gathered in accordance with the CFS definition, however, have failed to confirm the assumption that the disease entity is pathogenetically uniform. Furthermore, the originally selected criteria have proven to be impracticable ore theoretically questionable. In the period that followed, modifications that permitted a more comprehensive and yet more differentiated classification of fatigue states of unclear etiology were proposed. The new research approach avoids postulation of causal entities and puts CFS back in a category with other descriptive states of fatigue.

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A body with chronic fatigue syndrome as a battleground for the fight to separate from the mother

Simpson¹

1997

J Analytical Psychology

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I describe the therapy of a 20-year-old women who believed that her difficulties in concentrating and remembering were caused by her "ME' (Myalgic encephalomyelitis, Chronic fatigue syndrome, or CFS). She had been fathered by a man who never left his own wife. Work with her dreams revealed a within-body drama in which she was locked in an unspeakable fight to the death with her mother. Her symptoms improved after parallels between a dream and an accident showed her own self-destructive hand in her story. Another dream, reflecting her first 'incestuous' affair, showed her search for her original father-self as someone separate from mother, and a later affair provided a between-body drama, helping her to own the arrogant and abject traits she had before seen only as her mother's. I show how we worked in the area of Winnicott's first 'primitive agony' as experienced by a somatizing patient, stuck in a too-close destructive relationship with her mother-body. I discuss how analytical work can be done with the primitive affects and conflicts against which the ME symptoms may be defending.

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The glass cage

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Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: A legal guide to the perplexed

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: A legal guide to the perplexed

Definitionen des „Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” (CFS)

A body with chronic fatigue syndrome as a battleground for the fight to separate from the mother

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