[NotQuiteCricket]

Main Entry: iat·ro·gen·ic
Pronunciation: (")I-"a-tr&-'je-nik
Function: adjective
Etymology: Greek iatros physician + English -genic
Date: 1924
: induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures <an iatrogenic rash

You don't think that the medical people involved in diagnosing and validating the patients' wants and feelings (in the name of the dr. getting more money) has anything to do with the syndromes that the patients develop?

[dozer7]

Excellent point. I remember Bass and Davis when they wrote the book courage to heal. They gave us the False Memory Syndrome. Lots of people went to jail before they were exposed for the frauds that they were. Rant OFF

best regards

the dozer

[wizardoz]

I wish some medical expert would plant the idea in my mind that I'm a tireless workaholic with no appetite.

[nuconvert]

I don't disagree with the entire article. What I DO disagree with is this :

"The syndrome or condition is probably generated or induced by the therapist; a form of autosuggestion based upon the therapist’s handling of or discussing of the issue."

I don't beleive it's a responsible statement to make in the cases of these 2 conditions.

Do I think that there may be Dr's sometimes "validating the patients' wants and feelings (in the name of the dr. getting more money)? Probably, yes. But Mr. Elliot is generalizing.