Chris, this is deeply intriguing information. I'll pass your message along
to my friend, partly in case she doesn't know of the UN/WHO news & partly
because the relation to psychology is so interesting.
thanks very much!
KS
On 29/01/07, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 20:22 +0200, kasper salonen wrote:
> > I have a friend here in finland who has CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) &
> has
> > battled for years with finnish healthcare to get them to acknowledge her
> > condition, without success.
>
> CFS is now recognised by WHO (World Health Organisation) and the United
> Nations as a disease. Now that we have a recognised disease the next
> battle is the right to be treated. Biochemistry and clinical
> observations suggests that strong opiates can reverse the symptoms
> enough, including dementia, for CFS sufferers to return to work or
> domestic functions. That aside, there is a connection between CFS, the
> denial of pain relief and parturition envy.
>
> Denying opiate medication rests on war against drugs propaganda. It is
> better for chronic pain sufferers to be opiate free then become addicted
> to and intoxicated by opiate medications, such state inspired propaganda
> claims. The scientific facts are chronic use of opiates by chronic pain
> sufferers does not cause opiate addiction or intoxication.
>
> We now move to the psychoanalytic explanation for CFS and I quote from:
>
> Fugitives From Guilt: Postmodern De-Moralization and the New Hysterias,
> Donald L. Carveth and Jean Hantman Carveth [American Imago 60.4 (2003)
> 445-479]
>
> >From the opening paragraph to the article, published in 2003, that is
> over three years ago, not two hundred years ago.
>
> "In Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media (1997), Elaine
> Showalter explores a range of conditions—chronic fatigue syndrome,
> multiple personality disorder, recovered memory, satanic ritual abuse,
> alien abduction, Gulf War syndrome—that she views as modern forms of
> hysteria as distinct from the old conversion and anxiety hysterias
> characteristic of the last fin-de-siècle and associated with the names
> of Charcot, Janet, Breuer, and Freud."
>
> ...and the next paragraph:
>
> "Showalter argues that, on the contrary, far from having died, hysteria
> is alive and well in the form of the psychological plagues or epidemics
> of "imaginary illnesses" and "hypnotically induced pseudomemories" that
> characterize today's cultural narratives of hysteria."
>
> The authors of this paper who make a claim that CFS is a hysteria
> related to guilt and aggression approvingly refer to Showalter's claim
> that hostile responses to the claim that CFS is a modern hysteria is a
> proof of diagnosis of CFS as hysteria. In other words, if you disagree
> with me it proves that I am right. At this point I have to throw my
> hands up in the air and wonder if I am really reading professional and
> accountable clinical practitioners of psychoanalysis since what is being
> demonstrated is an appalling ignorance of Freud's writing as if all
> parties mentioned above have not in fact read Freud but instead give
> citations as a method of deceit. A very poor level of scholarship is
> being displayed.
>
> Since I have accessed this article through the university research
> library and can assume it has undergone some form of peer review I can
> perhaps assume that this article is not a fraud. If this is so then it
> becomes apparent that what is being projected in this article are the
> authors' own investments in hysteria which tie in or connect to the
> state's own hysteria in the war against drugs. Hysteria, according to
> Freud, is connected with castration anxiety. So, it is here that a
> connection can be made between the refusal of pain relief to people with
> CFS and parturition envy. Perhaps the three authors mentioned need to be
> more carefully examined for their own investments in parturition envy
> and the economy of the phallus which they appear to be interested in
> upholding. The final insult is that they put this under the rubric of
> feminism.
>
> I will add some more later. I have to prepare an evening meal. I am also
> concerned that the above mentioned writers may be suffering from
> delusional psychosis.
>
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