Carolyn Wilshire

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Carolyn Wilshire, PhD., is a Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, School of Psychology, Wellington, New Zealand. She specializes in Language, Aphasia, Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology, Cognitive Neuroscience.

Education[edit | edit source]

  • PhD - University of Cambridge
  • BSc - (Hons) Monash University

Notable studies/articles on ME/CFS[edit | edit source]

  • 2020, Conceptualising illness and disease: reflections on Sharpe and Greco (2019)[1] - (Full text)
  • 2019, Response: Sharpe, Goldsmith and Chalder fail to restore confidence in the PACE trial findings[2] - (Full text)
  • 2018, Rethinking the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome — A reanalysis and evaluation of findings from a recent major trial of graded exercise and CBT[3] - (Full Text)
  • 2017, The problem of bias in behavioural intervention studies: Lessons from the PACE trial[4] - (Full text)
  • 2017, Can patients with chronic fatigue syndrome really recover after graded exercise or cognitive behavioural therapy? A critical commentary and preliminary re-analysis of the PACE trial[5] - (Full text)
  • 2017, PACE trial claims of recovery are not justified by the data: a rejoinder to Sharpe, Chalder, Johnson, Goldsmith and White (2017)[6] - (Full text)
  • 2015, Psychogenic explanations of physical illness: Time to examine the evidence[7] - (Full Text)

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  1. Wilshire, Carolyn; Kindlon, T (2020). "Conceptualising illness and disease: reflections on Sharpe and Greco (2019)" (PDF). Medical Humanities. 46 (4): 532–536. doi:10.1136/medhum-2019-011756.
  2. Wilshire, C; Kindlon, T (2019). "Response: Sharpe, Goldsmith and Chalder fail to restore confidence in the PACE trial findings" (PDF). BMC Psychology. 7: 19. doi:10.1186/s40359-019-0296-x.
  3. Wilshire, C; Kindlon, T; Courtney, R; Matthees, A; Tuller, D; Geraghty, K; Levin, B (2018). "Rethinking the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome—A reanalysis and evaluation of findings from a recent major trial of graded exercise and CBT". BMC Psychology. 6: 6. doi:10.1186/s40359-018-0218-3.
  4. Wilshire, Carolyn (2017). "The problem of bias in behavioural intervention studies: Lessons from the PACE trial". Journal of Health Psychology. 22 (9): 1128–1133. doi:10.1177/1359105317700885.
  5. Wilshire, C; Kindlon, T; Matthees, A; McGrath, S (2017). "Can patients with chronic fatigue syndrome really recover after graded exercise or cognitive behavioural therapy? A critical commentary and preliminary re-analysis of the PACE trial". Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior. 5 (1): 43–56. doi:10.1080/21641846.2017.1259724.
  6. Wilshire, Carolyn; Kindlon, T; McGrath, S (2017). "PACE trial claims of recovery are not justified by the data: a rejoinder to Sharpe, Chalder, Johnson, Goldsmith and White". Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior. 5 (1): 62–67. doi:10.1080/21641846.2017.1259724.
  7. Wilshire, Carolyn; Ward, Tony (2015). "Psychogenic explanations of physical illness: Time to examine the evidence". Perspectives on Psychological Science 2016. 11 (5): 606–631. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.1344.7125.