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{{NeedsImage}} '''Keith Kahn-Harris''', PhD, is an Associate Lecturer in Sociology, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and a writer who has authored several books.<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://www.amazon.com/Keith-Kahn-Harris/e/B001JP3YT4 | title = Books by Keith Kahn-Harris | last = | first = | date = |website=Amazon|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url = https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/52480.Keith_Kahn_Harris | title = Keith Kahn-Harris | website = goodreads.com|access-date=2018-08-09}}</ref> Dr. Kahn-Harris writes on a variety of topics for news media including [[Myalgic encephalomyelitis]] (ME). He is a critic of the psychiatric model of ME and use of [[Cognitive behavioral therapy]] (CBT) on [[ME/CFS]] patients.<ref name="theguardian">{{Cite web | url = http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/may/06/healthandwellbeing.health2 | title = What it really means to be healthy | last = Kahn-Harris | first = Keith | date = 2008-05-05 | website = the Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-08-09}}</ref> Keith developed ME after [[glandular fever]] at university in 1993 and considers himself "lucky" as he has relatively mild ME. "I work part-time in the sociology department of Goldsmiths, University of London, I have a wife and two children, I have travelled and experienced many of the things that people of my age have."<ref name="theguardian" /><ref name="sr">{{Cite web | url = https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/blog/towards-an-exhausted-sociology.html | title = Towards an Exhausted Sociology | last = Kahn-Harris | first = Keith | date = Oct 25, 2017 | website = thesociologicalreview.com|publisher=The Sociological Review|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=2018-08-09}}</ref> == Academic positions == *2008-9: Research Associate at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths University of London. *2007-8: Research Associate at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College. *2005: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden, Campus Norrköping of Linköping University. *2001-2: "Jerusalem Fellow" at the Mandel School for Advanced Educational Leadership in Jerusalem.{{citation needed | date = 2018}} == Notable articles and blogs == *May 5, 2008, [https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/may/06/healthandwellbeing.health2 What it really means to be healthy] <blockquote>For many years, [[Wessely school|psychiatrists dominated]] the research and treatment of ME. The treatment of first choice remains various forms of [[cognitive behavioral therapy|cognitive behavioural therapy]] (CBT) which, applied crudely, can end up suggesting to patients that their illness is [[illness beliefs|"all in the mind"]]. The ME community is full of stories of patients being [[Medical neglect and abuse|forced]] into [[graded exercise therapy|exercise]] programmes that make their health worse, of benefits and insurance claimants [[ethical issues|accused of lying]], of parents of [[Pediatric myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome|children with ME]] accused of [[Fabricated Induced Illness|Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy]]. [[Sophie Mirza]], who became the first person to be classified as having died of ME in the UK in 2005, was even [[Medical neglect and abuse|forcibly sectioned]].</blockquote> *Oct 25, 2017, [https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/blog/towards-an-exhausted-sociology.html Towards an Exhausted Sociology]<ref name="sr" /> == Of interest == On August 3rd, 2018, Professor [[Michael Sharpe]], a key author of the [[PACE trial]] and proponent of the [[Biopsychosocial model]] (BPS model) of ME/CFS, [https://twitter.com/profmsharpe/status/1025280485122027521 tweeted out Dr. Kahn-Harris' article ''Denialism: what drives people to reject the truth'']<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://twitter.com/profmsharpe/status/1025280485122027521 | title = Denialism: what drives people to reject the truth | last = Sharpe | first = Michael | date = Aug 3, 2018|work=Twitter|access-date=2018-08-17|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|at=12:21 AM|language=en}}</ref> which discusses flat-earthers, climate change denialists, and anti-vaxxers all of which critics of psychiatry in ME/CFS including the patients have been compared, and by Prof. Sharpe at his 2017 'Special Ethics Seminar'.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/current-members/events/2773 | title = St Cross Special Ethics Seminar with Michael Sharpe | date = 2017-05-19|work=St Cross College|access-date=2018-08-09|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.legalethicsforum.com/blog/2017/07/questions-about-prof-michael-sharpes-st-cross-special-ethics-seminar-at-oxford-university.html | title = Questions about Prof. Michael Sharpe's "St Cross Special Ethics Seminar" at Oxford University | last = Lubet | first = Steve | date = Jul 3, 2017 | website = Legal Ethics Forum|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=2018-08-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/julianvigo/2018/06/27/resistance-to-science-and-technology/#5b85dd122bd4 | title = Resistance To Science And Technology | last = Vigo | first = Julian | date = Jun 27, 2018|work=Forbes|access-date=2018-08-09|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|language=en}}</ref> It is unclear if Prof. Sharpe knew Dr. Kahn-Harris is an ME patient and critic of psychiatry's "crude applications of the psychiatric model of ME"<ref name="theguardian" /> perhaps making an academic faux pas, or jeering Dr. Kahn-Harris for being a "denier" himself. === Open letter to The Lancet === Dr. Kahn-Harris added his name to the list of signatories for the [[Open letter to the Lancet|open letter to The Lancet]]. [[David Tuller]] sent a third letter to Dr. [[Richard Horton]] of [[The Lancet]] on August 12, 2018. * Aug 12, 2018, [http://www.virology.ws/2018/08/13/trial-by-error-open-letter-to-the-lancet-version-3-0/ Trial By Error: Open Letter to The Lancet, version 3.0]<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.virology.ws/2018/08/13/trial-by-error-open-letter-to-the-lancet-version-3-0/ | title = Trial By Error: Open Letter to The Lancet, version 3.0 | last = Tuller | first = David | date = Aug 13, 2018 | website = [[Virology blog]]|language=en-US|via=Virology Blog|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=2018-08-17}}</ref> == Online presence == *[https://independentresearcher.academia.edu/KeithKahnHarris Academia.edu] *[https://www.amazon.com/Keith-Kahn-Harris/e/B001JP3YT4 Amazon] *[https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/52480.Keith_Kahn_Harris Good Reads] *[https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-kahn-harris-06906b6 LinkedIn] *[http://www.metaljew.org/ Metal Jew] *[https://twitter.com/KeithKahnHarris Twitter] *[http://www.kahn-harris.org/ Website] == Learn more == *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Kahn-Harris Wikipedia] == See also == *[[Biopsychosocial model]] *[[Cognitive behavioral therapy]] *[[Graded exercise therapy]] *[[PACE trial]] *[[Medical neglect and abuse]] == References == {{Reflist}} [[Category:People with ME, CFS, and/or FMS]] [[Category:Advocates or allies]] [[Category:British advocates or allies]] [[Category:Psychological paradigm critics]] [[Category:PACE trial critics]]
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