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[[File:EdwardShorter.jpg|thumb|image: edwardshorterauthor.com (fair use)]] '''Edward Shorter''', PhD., (born 1941) is a American/Canadian medical historian and writer. He is the Jason A. Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Toronto.<ref>http://www.psychiatry.utoronto.ca/people/dr-edward-shorter/</ref> Doctor Shorter responded to the 2015 [[Institute of Medicine report]] saying "Their report is valueless, junk science at its worst."<ref>[http://www.freezepage.com/1424484834CZFJDNHSFV Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is Back!]</ref> ==Education== *1968, PhD., Harvard University, in modern social history<ref>http://livinghistory.med.utoronto.ca/people/edward-shorter</ref> ==Notable studies== ==Articles== *19 Feb 2015, [https://web.archive.org/web/20150220123853/https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/how-everyone-became-depressed/201502/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-is-back ''Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is Back! But the new Institute of Medicine report is driven by politics, not science''] This article in ''Psychology Today'' was pulled and replaced with a [https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/how-everyone-became-depressed/201502/chronic-fatigue-in-the-context-the-history-medicine less strongly-worded one a week later]. However, in both, he criticizes the [[Institute of Medicine]] committee: "It’s a committee that the [[chronic fatigue syndrome|CFS]] patients’ lobby has roped, captured, and hogtied. How the Institute of Medicine could have let itself in for this embarrassment is a mystery." "Nothing has changed since then [1992] in scientific terms. There have been no convincing new studies, no breakthrough findings of organicity, nothing.""But, rather than [[SEID]], what many of these patients have is a kind of delusional somatization, the unshakeable belief that something is wrong with their bodies rather than their minds." *23 Feb 2015, [https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/how-everyone-became-depressed/201502/chronic-fatigue-in-the-context-the-history-medicine ''Chronic Fatigue in the Context of the History of Medicine: Lives today are ruined by CFS''] Shorter writes:"Is it possible that the symptoms of [[ME/CFS]] are occasionally caused by a real but undiagnosed disease? In some cases, undoubtedly. But the term includes two other clinical populations as well: patients with delusional somatization, who simply misinterpret the signals their bodies are sending off; and patients with a psychiatric disorder such as depression, which often causes feelings of pain and fatigue. The interests of these latter two groups are not well served by asserting that they have an occult organic illness." ==Books== *2015, ''What Psychiatry Left Out of the DSM-5: Historical Mental Disorders Today''<ref name="Shorter, 2015" /> *2013, ''Partnership for Excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals''<ref name="ShorterE, 2013" /> *2013, ''How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown''<ref name="Shorter, 2013" /> *2010, ''Endocrine Psychiatry: Solving the Riddle of Melancholia'', co-authored with Max Fink<ref name="Shorter, 2010" /> *2009, ''Before Prozac''<ref name="Shorter, 2009" /> *2007, ''Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness'', co-authored with David Healy<ref name="Shorter, 2007" /> *2007, Chapter 2, "Chronic Fatigue in Historical Perspective" in ''Ciba Foundation Symposium 173 - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome''<ref>Shorter, E. (2007) Chronic Fatigue in Historical Perspective, in Ciba Foundation Symposium 173 - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (eds G. R. Bock and J. Whelan), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, UK, pp 6-22. doi: 10.1002/9780470514382.ch2</ref> *2005, ''A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry''<ref name="Shorter, 2005" /> *2000, ''The Kennedy Family and the Story of Mental Retardation''<ref name="Shorter, 2000" /> *1997, ''History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac''<ref name="Shorter, 1997" /> *1993, ''From the Mind Into the Body''<ref name="Shorter, 1993" /> *1992, ''From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era''<ref name="Shorter, 1992" /> *1991, ''Doctors and Their Patients: A Social History''<ref name="Shorter, 1991" /> *1990, ''Women's Bodies: A Social History of Women's Encounter with Health, Ill-Health, and Medicine''<ref name="Shorter, 1990" /> *1987, ''The Health Century''<ref name="Shorter, 1987" /> *1986, ''Bedside Manners: The Troubled History of Doctors & Patients''<ref name="Shorter, 1986" /> *1983, ''A History of Women's Bodies''<ref name="Shorter, 1983" /> *1977, ''The Making of the Modern Family''<ref name="Shorter, 1977" /> ==Talks and interviews== ==Online presence== *[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Shorter%20E%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=26670786 PubMed - E Shorter] *[http://www.twitter.com/dredwardshorter Twitter] *[http://www.dredwardshorter.com/ Website] ==Learn more== *[http://www.psychiatry.utoronto.ca/people/dr-edward-shorter/ University of Toronto - Edward Shorter] ==See also== *[[National Academy of Medicine]] *[[Institute of Medicine report]] ==References== <references> <ref name="Shorter, 2015">{{citation | author = Edward Shorter | title = What Psychiatry Left Out of the DSM-5: Historical Mental Disorders Today | type = book | date = 2015 | ISBN = 1138830895 }}</ref> <ref name="ShorterE, 2013">{{citation | author = Edward Shorter | title = Partnership for Excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals | type = book | date = 2013 | ISBN = 1442645954 }}</ref> <ref name="Shorter, 2013">{{citation | author = Edward Shorter | title = How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown | type = book | date = 2013 | ISBN = 0199948089 }}</ref> <ref name="Shorter, 2010">{{citation | author = Edward Shorter and Max Fink | title = Endocrine Psychiatry: Solving the Riddle of Melancholia | type = book | date = 2010 | ISBN = 0199737460 }}</ref> <ref name="Shorter, 2009">{{citation | author = Edward Shorter | title = Before Prozac | type = book | date = 2009 | ISBN = 0195368746 }}</ref> <ref name="Shorter, 2007">{{citation | author = Edward Shorter and David Healy | title = Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness | type = book | date = 2007 | ISBN = 0813541697 }}</ref> <ref name="Shorter, 2005">{{citation | author = Edward Shorter | title = A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry | type = book | date = 2005 | ISBN = 0195176685 }}</ref> <ref name="Shorter, 2000">{{citation | author = Edward Shorter | title = The Kennedy Family and the Story of Mental Retardation | type = book | date = 2000 | ISBN = 1566397820 }}</ref> <ref name="Shorter, 1997">{{citation | author = Edward Shorter | title = History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac | type = book | date = 1997 | ISBN = 047115749X }}</ref> <ref name="Shorter, 1993">{{citation | author = Edward Shorter | title = From the Mind Into the Body | type = book | date = 1993 | ISBN = 0029286662 }}</ref> <ref name="Shorter, 1992">{{citation | author = Edward Shorter | title = From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era | type = book | date = 1992 | ISBN = 0029286654 }}</ref> <ref name="Shorter, 1991">{{citation | author = Edward Shorter | title = Doctors and Their Patients: A Social History | type = book | date = 1991 | ISBN = 088738871X }}</ref> <ref name="Shorter, 1990">{{citation | author = Edward Shorter | title = Women's Bodies: A Social History of Women's Encounter with Health, Ill-Health, and Medicine | type = book | date = 1990 | ISBN = 0887388485 }}</ref> <ref name="Shorter, 1987">{{citation | author = Edward Shorter | title = The Health Century | type = book | date = 1987 | ISBN = 0385242360 }}</ref> <ref name="Shorter, 1986">{{citation | author = Edward Shorter | title = Bedside Manners: The Troubled History of Doctors & Patients | type = book | date = 1986 | ISBN = 0670810215 }}</ref> <ref name="Shorter, 1983">{{citation | author = Edward Shorter | title = A History of Women's Bodies | type = book | date = 1983 | ISBN = 0465030297 }}</ref> <ref name="Shorter, 1977">{{citation | author = Edward Shorter | title = The Making of the Modern Family | type = book | date = 1977 | ISBN = 0465097227 }}</ref> </references> [[Category:Psychological paradigm proponents]]
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