Trudie Chalder

Trudie Chalder is Professor of Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy at the Institute of Psychiatry in King's College London. Professor Chalder was an investigator on the PACE trial. She has also done consultancy work for insurance companies and has received royalties from Sheldon Press and Constable and Robinson.

Recovery claims
In a 2011 article in the Guardian UK newspaper professor Chalder was quoted as saying "twice as many people on graded exercise therapy and cognitive behaviour therapy got back to normal" which is not supported by the PACE trial results.

Controversy
In 2000 Chalder & fellow researchers were accused of "unsupported conclusions derived from faulty analyses", and responded that "we've been attacked by gremlins" who changed the data on their manuscript.

Notable studies

 * 2016, Cognitive behaviour therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome: Differences in treatment outcome between a tertiary treatment centre in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands
 * 2016, Complementary and alternative healthcare use by participants in the PACE trial of treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome
 * 2016, Mortality of people with chronic fatigue syndrome: a retrospective cohort study in England and Wales from the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Biomedical Research Centre (SLaM BRC) Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS) Register The study has been criticized by James Coyne.
 * 2012, Experiences of young people who have undergone the Lightning Process to treat chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis

Talks & interviews

 * 2016, Slide from talk claiming "It is possible to recover from CFS"
 * 2011, Trudie Chalder interview
 * Trudie Chalder interview, undated

Learn more

 * Wikipedia - Trudie Chalder
 * 2013, Wiley - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Part Two. Specific Disorders