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2 days ago · Simon Wessely threatened to sue and The Scotsman sacked her, though her last point gained relevance when Professor Peter Behan – who’d damned CBT as “talk the talk nonsense” – lost funding in 2005 after his team mapped all 33,000 genes in ME/CFS sufferers, comparing them with those of healthy people. This aborted study was hailed by ME Research UK as “the discovery of a clinical ‘signature’ for ME/CFS (which) would transform this situation at a single sharp stroke”.
Jul 17, 2024 · Labour said the changes announced on Wednesday bring forward the vast majority of the recommendations from Professor Sir Simon Wessely, who conducted an independent review of the Mental...
Jul 8, 2024 · October 2017 – December 2018: In response to rising detention rates and disproportionate detention of people from minority ethnic groups, the Government commissions the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act, chaired by Professor Sir Simon Wessely. The review publishes a report examining the causes of rising and unequal detention rates ...
Jul 4, 2024 · The British psychiatrist Simon Wessely labeled two types of MPI. Mass anxiety hysteria. This type of mass psychosis can be characterized by shorter, more acute episodes of anxiety without prior distress.
Jul 17, 2024 · Chaired by Sir Simon Wessely, the independent review of the Mental Health Act 1983 (to which I was the legal adviser) reported in 2018. A summary of the report can be found here. Some early commentaries on the review’s report can be found here. The draft Mental Health Bill brought forward by the previous Government can be found here.
Jul 19, 2024 · Professor Wessely had completed his review The previous Government then issued a response, A White Paper was published to set out government’s intentions; A draft Mental Health Bill 2022 was published, ready to begin a parliamentary process; The Joint Committee of the Houses of Commons and Lords reported on it.
Jul 17, 2024 · The British psychiatrist Simon Wessely received death threats because of his opinions and research on it (4). Other researchers are winning accolades.
