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==Book== Schaffner wrote a book, [[Exhaustion: A History]], published in 2016, that tries to give a brief historical view of the concept of "exhaustion" throughout many eras, with chapters titles, such as, Humors, Sin, Saturn, Nerves, Depression, [[Occupational burnout|Burnout]], and others.<ref>Schaffner, A. K. (2016). ''Exhaustion: A History''. New York & West Sussex, Columbia University Press.</ref> Although scientifically and historically inaccurate on many accounts (see the blog entry [https://uttingwolffspouts.com/2016/08/02/the-age-of-ignorance/ Age of Ignorance], the section that is generating the most ire is the chapter called "Mystery Viruses", in which ME and CFS patients are described as violent: "A strong, at times even violent, antipsychiatric and antipsychoanalytical stance is in fact a defining characteristic of many CFS patients and activist groups<ref>Schaffner, A. K. (2016). ''Exhaustion: A History''. New York & West Sussex, Columbia University Press. p 190</ref>......many patients react angrily, and some violently, to suggestions that their illness might not be organic is question<ref>Schaffner, A. K. (2016). ''Exhaustion: A History''. New York & West Sussex, Columbia University Press. p 191</ref>...[and medical historian [[Edward Shorter]]] emphasizes that the rejection of psychiatric diagnoses by chronic fatigue patients is much more violent than 'are the normal reactions of medical patients to psychiatric consultation, and is itself a characteristic of the illness.'"<ref>Schaffner, A. K. (2016). ''Exhaustion: A History''. New York & West Sussex, Columbia University Press. pp 193-194</ref> Criticism by patients stems from Schaffner's heavy use of a psychological etiology to explain [[myalgic encephalomyelitis|ME]] and [[chronic fatigue syndrome|CFS]] on the basis of a lack of pathophysiological evidence of disease, even though patients point to the conclusions of the 2015 [[Institute of Medicine report]] which finalized that the disease is not psychological.<ref>[http://www.healthrising.org/forums/threads/book-gets-me-cfs-wrong.4700/ Book gets ME/CFS wrong?]</ref>
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