RichardBentall: The approach which we've taken is to assume that the symptoms that chronic fatigue patients experience are very real ones, that they're caused by physiological disregulation which is a consequence of long periods of inactivity.
RichardBentall: What we did was we explained to them what we believed were the factors involved in maintaining their symptoms.
RichardBentall: Eighty-one percent of the patients said that they felt they had benefited from the treatment, and of those, by far the majority experienced a return to normal functioning during the period of the trial.
The publicity sets up its author, RichardBentall, as an anti-psychiatrist in the manner of RD Laing, but the contents are actually much less controversial.
Bentall, who is professor of experimental clinical psychology at Manchester University, delves into "normal" mental processes by investigating psychotic illness.
Bentall uses these striking examples as ballast for his argument that contemporary psychiatry is inevitably misled in its employment of drug treatment and adherence to diagnostic classification systems.
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