Fatigue syndrome: neurasthenia revived.

Culture and somatic experience: the social course of illness in neurasthenia and chronic fatigue syndrome.

An anthropological view of culture and somatic experience is presented through elaboration of the notion that illness has a social course. Contemporary anthropology locates culture in local worlds of interpersonal experience. The flow of events and processes in these local worlds influences the waxing and waning of symptoms in a dialetic involving body and society over time. Conversely, symptom...

The interesting but confusing phenomenon of neurasthenia and chronic fatigue syndrome

A Manual of Neurasthenia

writing the book, and to enjoy the extraordinary, naivete in which it abounds. Although the author is not one of those who still recognises the existence of only twoneuroses, viz., hysteria and neurasthenia, it cannot be said that he presents a very clear picture of the latter. Neurasthenia is a term which has been applied recklessly to a perfectly distinguishable group of neuroses. The reason ...

Neurasthenia in Anglo-Indians

Cognitive-behavioural therapy v. mirtazapine for chronic fatigue and neurasthenia: randomised placebo-controlled trial.

BACKGROUND Single interventions in chronic fatigue syndrome have shown only limited effectiveness, with few studies of comprehensive treatment programmes. AIMS To examine the effect of a comprehensive cognitive-behavioural treatment (CCBT) programme compared with placebo-controlled mirtazapine medication in patients with chronic fatigue, and to study the effect of combined medication and CCBT...