Ellen Goudsmit

Dr Ellen M. Goudsmit is a retired health psychologist. Despite being disabled since childhood and at times, housebound, she has worked to create greater awareness of conditions such as postnatal depression, premenstrual syndrome, myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). She was an advisor to the charity now known as Action for ME and the ME Association.

Dr Goudsmit has written papers detailing her accusation that the British Medical Journal and The Lancet journal had displayed bias towards the psychological model of ME and CFS.

She has published several papers on ME and CFSPubmed Ellen Goudsmit including the first description of progressive ME, "Progressive Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) or a New Disease? A Case Report."

London criteria
Dr. Goudsmit was one of the co-authors of the 1994 and, the updated 2014, London criteria case definition for research.

Letters

 * Response to article in the magazine published by the UK charity MCS-Aware

Journal Publications

 * 2004, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Editorial Bias in the British Medical Journal"Abstract - A literature search identified all papers published on chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) in the British Medical Journal between 1995 and 2000. Analysis of the findings revealed a bias towards the views of one school of thought and a lack of papers on the immunological or virological aspects of CFS. This contrasts with the mainstream American journals, which generally covered a much wider range of subjects and views. We examine the arguments for and against covert editorial policies, and summarise the results of discussions with the relevant individuals and organisations."

Learn more

 * PACE Trial the Flaws - PDF

Online presence

 * PubMed - Ellen Goudsmit
 * Twitter
 * Ellen Goudsmit blog - it's not like this in the textbooks
 * Ellen Goudsmit CV
 * ME List