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Lewis's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook, 4th Edition (Lewis, Lewis's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)

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Very inaccurate on ME (CFS). For example, it says ME is a functional somatic syndrome caused by depression and anxiety citing as proof that there is more psychiatric comorbidity in ME patients than healthy controls (p.638). This ignores, inter alia, the fact that the rates are no higher than for other disabling somatic diseases like MS or AIDS. It also recommends pushing the child back toward regular functioning which sometimes greatly increases morbidity. There are over 4,000 articles in peer reviewed medical journals showing frank biological pathology in ME. ME causes an enormous amount of morbidity and suffering. The propagation of falsehoods like these contribute to a huge amount of iatrogenic morbidity (and sometimes mortality) for people with ME.

I bought this book for my wife. She reads a bit of it just about every day. Has never made any negative comment on what she is reading. Must be a good book. Otherwise, I'm sure that she would have commented by now.