Martha Mitchell effect
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The Martha Mitchell Effect is when a psychiatrist, psychologist or mental health clinician diagnoses a person with a mental illness involving false beliefs, such as delusions or paranoia, despite the fact that the person is simply describing things that are factually true, but the clinician believes otherwise.[1]
Theory[edit | edit source]
ME/CFS[edit | edit source]
Evidence[edit | edit source]
Criticism[edit | edit source]
Notable studies[edit | edit source]
- 2017, Contesting the psychiatric framing of ME/CFS[2] (Full text)
Articles, talks and videos[edit | edit source]
See also[edit | edit source]
- Psychologization
- Illness beliefs
- Health anxiety
- Symptom focusing
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Biopsychosocial model
- Mental disorders
- Psychosomatic
Learn more[edit | edit source]
- Wikipedia
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bell, Vaughan (August 3, 2013). "You needn't be wrong to be called delusional: Just because they're out to get you doesn't prove you're not paranoid, says the latest edition of the psychiatrists' bible". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved March 6, 2019. Cite has empty unknown parameter:
|dead-url=(help) - ↑ Spandler, Helen; Allen, Meg (August 16, 2017). "Contesting the psychiatric framing of ME/CFS" (PDF). Social Theory & Health. 16 (2): 127–141. doi:10.1057/s41285-017-0047-0. ISSN 1477-8211.
