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  ME / CFS    
1 Overload – Beating ME, the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Jacqueline Steincamp 1989
2 ME and You Steve Wilkinson 1988
3 ME and How to Live with It Dr Anne Macintyre 1989
4 Postviral Fatigue Symptom – The Saga of Royal Free Disease A Melvin Ramsey 1986
5 ME – What Is It? Have You Got It? How To Get Better? Mike Franklin & Jane Sullivan 1989
6 Why ME? – A Guide to Combating Post-Viral Illness Dr Belinda Dawes & Dr Damien Downing 1989
7 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – The Hidden Epidemic Jesse A Stoff & Chris Pellegrino (also on tape) 1988 & 1992
8 Better Recovery from Viral Illness Darrel Ho-Yen (new ed) 1987 & 1993
9 Myalgic Encephalomyelitis – Post Viral Syndrome and How to Cope with it Celia Woolley 1986
51 The Canary and Chronic Fatigue Majid Ali  
59 Recovering from ME – A Guide to Self-Empowerment William Collinge 1994
62 Surviving ME – Practical Strategies for Coming to Terms with Chronic Fatigue Joyce Fox 1996
75* ME/CFS: a Treatment Plan from a Biomechanical Perspective Raymond N Perrin 1996
76 CFS: A Practical Guide Dr Anne Macintyre 1998
81 From Fatigued to Fantastic Jacob Teitelbaum MD 1996
90 Running On Empty Katrina Berne PhD  
91 Shattered: Life with ME Lynn Mitchell 2003
92 Stricken: Voices from the hidden epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Edited: Julia Munson 2000
93 Guide to Pacing Chris Smith  
98 The Natural Way: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Guide to Complementary Therapies, Alternative Techniques & Conventional Treatments Gill Jacobs 1997
101 Tired All the Time Alan Stewart 1993
111 Living with ME Dr Charles Shepherd 1992
115 CFS – A Natural Way to Treat ME Prof Basant K Puri 2005
119* ME and Employment Julia Cameron 2005
120* Diagnosing and Treating CFS ( e-book) Dr Sarah Myhill 2005
  Personal Accounts    
44 A Year Lost and Found Michael Mayne 1987
45 Anatomy of an Illness – As Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing & Regeneration Norman Cousins 1981
46 Diana’s Story Deric Longden 1989
47 Lost for Words Deric Longden 1991
48 When the Worst that can Happen Already Has – conquering life’s most difficult times Dennis Wholey (ed) 1992
49 Grace and Grit:  Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber Ken Wilber  
73 Knowing ME Caeia March (ed) 1998
99 Why ME? Alex Howard 2003
109 The Final Surrender – A Journey to Wellness Jan Brumfitt 1999
124* M.E.-My Path to Recovery (talk) Sally Jones 28/7/06
       
  Nutrition    
10 Food Combining for Health Doris Grant, Jean Jace 1991 & 1984
11 Nutrition Handbook Celia & Brian Wright 1986
12 Low Blood Sugar (Hypoglycaemia) Martin L Budd  
14 Detox Phyllis Saifer & Meria Zellerbach 1986
15 Magic Minerals: Key to Better Health Carlson Wade 1976
16 Royal Jelly Irene Stein 1986
17 Trace Elements: A New Chapter in Nutrition Dr Andrew Stanway 1983
18 Nutritional Medicine: The Drug-Free Guide to Better Family Health Dr Stephen Davies & Dr Alan Stewart 1987
19 Dr Braly’s Food Allergy & Nutrition Revolution Dr James Braly 1992
53 Helping Ourselves: A Guide to Traditional Chinese Food Energetics Daverick Legett  
82 The Eat Right Diet Peter D’Adamo 1996
112 The Optimum Nutrition Bible Patrick Holford 1997/ 2000
113 The Vitamin Bible Earl Mindell 1985/90
       
  Allergy / Candida    
20 Candida Albicans: Could Yeast be Your Problem? Leon Chaitow 1985/ 1990
21 The Toxic Time Bomb: Is the Mercury in your Dental Fillings affecting your Health? Sam Ziff 1984
22 Not All in the Mind P Mackarness 1976
23 Candida Albicans: Yeast and Your Health Gill Jacobs 1990
24 What Doctors Don’t Tell You: Guide to Candida & ME   1994
25 What Doctors Don’t Tell You about Amalgam Fillings Photocopy  
26 The Allergy Connection Barbara Paterson 1985
27 Candida Albicans: Special Diet Cookbook Richard Turner & Elizabeth Simonsen 1987/ 1989
84 It’s All in Your Head: The Link between Mercury Amalgams & Illness Dr Hal A Huggins 1993
114 Overcoming Food Allergies Gwynne H Davies 1985
       
  Irritable Bowel Syndrome    
94 IBS: A complete Guide to Relief from Irritable Bowel Syndrome Christine P Dancey & Susan Backhouse 1997
95 Stop Belly-Aching: Banish Indigestion & Irritable Bowel Syndrome Dr Peter Mansfield 2001
103 Coping Successfully with your Irritable Bowel Rosemary Nichol 1989
104 The Irritable Bowel Diet Book Rosemary Nichol 1990
105 The Irritable Bowel Stress Book Rosemary Nichol 1991
       
  Therapies / Healing    
28 The Metamorphic Technique: Principles and Practice Gaston Sainte Pierre & Debbie Boater 1976
30 Gem Therapy A K Bhattacharya 1976
31 Do-In: Eastern Massage and Yoga Technique Jean Rofidal 1981
32 The Incredible Healing Needles: A Layman’s Guide to Chinese Acupuncture Dennis & Joyce Lawson-Wood 1974
34 Electrohealing:  The Medicine of the Future Roger Coghill  
35 Self-Help for Stress and Pain (Simple Energy Balancing Exercises) (photocopy) Elizabeth Barhydt & Hamilton Barhydt 1997
36 Jin Shin Jyutsu – Manual No 1 (self help techniques)   1994
37 Healing: The Energy that can restore Health Bruce MacManaway & Johanna Tureau  
38 Getting Well Again O Carl Simonton 1980
39 ME and the Healer Within Nick Bamforth 1993
40 Healing into Life and Death Stephen Levine  
52 The Alchemy of Illness Kat Duff  
58 The Healing Path: A Soul Approach to Illness Marc Ian Barasch  
63 Full Catastrophe Living (How to cope with Stress, Pain and Illness using Mindfulness Meditation) Jon Kabat-Zinn  
66 Home Coming: Reclaiming and Championing your Inner Child John Bradshaw 1990
70 The Women’s Book of Courage: Meditations for Empowerment and Peace of Mind Sue Patton Thoele 1996
96 Beat Fatigue with Yoga – 1st Edition Fiona Agombar  
       
  General Health / Misc.     
41 How to Boost your Immune System Jennifer Meek 1988
42 Cleansing the Colon Brian Wright 1985
43 Vaccination and Immunisation: Dangers, Delusions and Alternatives Leon Chaitow 1987
54 Climbing out of the Pit of Life Darrel Ho-Yen 1995
57 Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers – A Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping Robert M Sapolsky  
61 Passage to Power – Natural Menopause Revolution Lesley Kenton 1996
68 Illness as Metaphor: Aids and its Metaphors Susan Sontag 1990
72 The Artist’s Way Julia Cameron  
74 The Rejected Body – Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability Susan Wendell 1996
83 The Back and Beyond Dr Paul Sherwood 1992
97 Endless Energy Fiona Agombar 2002
100 Think Well Feel Great Donald Norfolk 1990
102 Olive Leaf Extract – the natural way to treat viral infections, the common cold etc Dr Morton Walker  
106 Skewed Martin J Walker 2003
121* Out of the Depths-Prayers of Hope by a PWME Elizabeth Babbs 2001
       
ref GUIDES    
       
118           Benefits and Work Guides
The North London ME Network is now a member of this organisation, allowing members free access to their fully updated, exceptionally helpful guides to all aspects of claiming benefits. Printed copies are available for loan as normal but, if you can, please request a copy by email so that library copies are available for those who can’t. 		  Steve Donnison & Holiday Whitehead  
118a Benefits Generally
  • Which Benefits can I Claim? (A-Z of benefits)
  • Getting Help with Benefits (organisations/people that may help)
    Apr 2007
Sep 2004
118b Incapacity Benefit: claiming
  • Physical health: guide to the personal capability assessment
  • Mental health: guide to the personal capability assessment
    Nov 2006 Nov 2006
118c Incapacity Benefit: appeals
  • Challenging a decision that you’re capable of work
     Jun 2005
118d Disability Living Allowance: claiming for adults
  • Claiming on physical health grounds
  • Claiming on mental health grounds
    May 2007
May 2007
   - Disability Living Allowance: claiming for children*
  • Claiming on physical health grounds
  • Claiming on mental health grounds
      
118e Disability Living Allowance: appeals   Oct 2006
118f Disability Living Allowance: renewal claims   Oct 2006
118g Disability Living Allowance: changes of circumstance   Oct 2006
   - Attendance Allowance: claiming, physical health grounds*    
118h             * Working
  • Work and Benefits for People with Long Term Health Conditions (how undertaking work affects your benefits)
  • Permitted Work (what it is and the rules that apply)
  • Voluntary Work (how to make sure it does not affect your benefits)
  • If I do any Work can I continue to Claim my..? (A-Z of benefits + how they are affected by working)
  • DLA medical examination: Doctor’s Report Form (DWP)
     Oct 2006   Oct 2006
Mar 2007 Apr 2007 Dec 2005
118i Work-focused Interviews   Mar 2007
118j* Giving Persuasive Information About How Far You Can Walk   Feb 2007
60 Access in London – A Guide for People Who Have Problems Getting Around Gordon Couch, William Forrester & Justin Irwin 1996
107 Incapacity Benefit Guide Department of Work and Pensions 2005
110 CBT and ME (leaflet) Susan White 2001
117 Guidance on the Management of CFS/ME (leaflet) Action for ME 2002
125* Help at Home- Guide to Community Care Services Disability Alliance 2005
ref TAPES    
       
  Visualisation / Healing    
1 An Island Called Paradise David Sun  
2 Island Sunrise: Superconscious Symbols, Visualization/Meditation Dick Sutphen  
3 The Miracle of Love Matthew Manning
Robert Godfrey		  
4 Fighting Back – Guide to Self-Healing Matthew Manning  
5 Self-Hypnosis    
6 You Can Heal Your Life Louise Hay  
14 The Complan Carers Cassettes Nos 1 and 2    
23 Recovering from CFS: The Home Self-Empowerment Program: 4 tapes: 3 talks including 5 relaxation and breathing exercises William Collinge 1993
24 Healing Touch (a live recording of a workshop featuring exercises to ‘bring out the healer in you’- 3 tapes Matthew Manning 1990
25 Living Dharma Tapes: 1. Softening pain/approaching pain; 2 Floating pain/exploring pain Stephen Levine  
27 Guided Journeys for Healing Matthew Manning  
28 Learning to Meditate: Clinically Standardised Meditation Patricia Carrington PhD 1978/
1995
29 Lakeside Solace Nature’s Way/Alan Robertson  
30 Sleep Sound Amrita  
32 Guided Relaxation Geraldine Doyle & Royston Day  
42 Relax to Recharge Tessa Jordan  
43 Relax to Renew Tessa Jordan  
44* Enjoy Peaceful Sleep Albert Smith  
45* Yoga the Gentle Way ( Audio Yoga) Angela Stevens-2  
46* Energise and Relax With Yoga ((Audio Yoga) Angela Stevens-6  
47* Complete relaxation (Diviniti Spoken Word Hypnosis Tapes) Glenn Harrold 2002
48* Deep Sleep (Diviniti Spoken Word Hypnosis Tapes) Glenn Harrold 2002
49* Heal Your Body (Diviniti Spoken Word Hypnosis Tapes) Glenn Harrold 1999
50* A Guided Meditation ( Diviniti Spoken Word Hypnosis Tapes) Glenn Harrold 2002
       
  Novels/Humour    
36 Titus Groan & Gormenghast (BBC) Mervyn Peake  
37 As it Seemed to Me – Political Memoirs John Cole  
38 Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge (vols 1-3) (BBC) Steve Coogan  
39 Definite Article – A live recording Eddie Izzard  
40 The Brother – Irish humour Eamon Morrissey  
       
  Talks    
12 Barriers to Disease – Enthusiasm, Activator of the Immune System Lawrence LeShan  
13 The Relationship between Environment, Diet and Health Peter Campbell 1994
33 Recovery from ME (talk for W Somerset MEA group) Dr Clare Fleming 23/5/96
       
 

Music

    
7 Pianoscapes Michael Jones  
8 The Response John Richardson  
20 A feather on the Breath of God (sequences & hymns) Abbess Hildegard of Bingen: Gothic Voices  
21 Awakenings: transcendental flute music Tim Wheater  
22 Temple in the Forest: ‘higher consciousness’ music David Neagle  
41 Celtic Sunrise by Midori: music for relaxation with a hint of Scotland Midori  
  Audio Books: health    
9 Are You Sleeping in a Safe Place? (2 tapes)    
10 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (8 tapes) Stoff and Pelegrino  
ref VIDEO TAPES    
       
16 Contains the following three programmes:
  1. Robert Kilroy-Silk on ME
  2. BBC’s ‘Frontline’ programme with Dr Anne Macintyre on ME
  3. Film ‘Wide-eyed and Legless’ with Julie Walters (tells the story of Diana Longden’s 13 year struggle with ME)
    
31 Panorama programme on ME 8-11-1999    
35 Open University programme on ME 13-4-2001    
 

 

    
ref DVDS    
       
1* Energising Biomedical Research in ME/CFS Dr Vance Spence MERGE 2006
2* The ME Assoc. Lecture at Leamington Spa Dr John Gow 3/9/05
3* Engaging With ME Uncovering Significant Patterns in ME Professor Malcolm
Hooper
Bruce Carruthers
(ME Support Norfolk)		 26/2/05 19/3/05
4* Freedom From ME-Journeys to Recovery Alex Howard 2006
       
ref CDs    
       
1 Healing ME – The Holistic Way by Alex Howard A set of interviews with Don Chisolm, Fiona Agombar, Gill Jacobs & Ashok Gupta  
2 Healing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – lecture Dr Basant Puri 2006
3* Yoga Nidra (relaxation) Swami Neel Kamai Saraswati  
4* Learn to Relax- Integrated Brainwave Balancing M.E. edit (headphones needed) Set of 4 CDs Optimum Health Clinic  
5* M.E.-My Path to Recovery (talk) N.L.M.E.Network 28/7/06
6* The Sleep Inducer –Integrated Brainwave Balancing (set of 4 CDs) Optimum Health Clinic  
ref Miscellaneous (Magazines, Articles, Reports etc)

 

 
       
50 The Joke’s on ME! – Cartoons from Interaction Martin Arber 1992
64 Report form the National Task Force on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome (PVFS), and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)   1994
64b Summary of the Report from the National Task Force on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome (PVFS), and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)   1994
65 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Report of the Royal College of Physicians, Psychiatrists and General Practitioners   1996
67 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – Information for Physicians The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (USA) 1997
69 ME:  Media, Metaphor and Medicine Dr Veronica Beechey 1997
71 Your ME could be an Under-active Thyroid Various 1997
86 Interaction – AfME magazine: 1988 onwards Action for ME  
87 Perspectives – MEA magazine: Winter 1987 - 2001 ME Association  
122* The 2005-6 CFIDS Chronicle-- The science and research of CFS The CFIDS Assoc. of America 2006
       
108 Collection of Research Articles:    
108a ‘ME, CFS & FM. Centred on Elevated Levels of Nitric Oxide, its Oxidant Product, Peroxynitrite & NMDA Activity’ –
First published in ‘Our Toxic Times’, 		Martin L. Pall PhD (Washington State University) Oct/Nov 2003 (?)
108b Biomedical research into ME/CFS at the University of Dundee - lecture Dr. Vance A. Spence, 9.4.04
108c Plasma isoprostanes and other markers of oxidative stress in chronic fatigue syndrome. Dr Gwen Kennedy et al, University of Dundee, 2003
108d Apoptosis in chronic fatigue syndrome. Department of Medicine,University of Dundee, 2003.
108e Advances in the biomedical investigation of ME Dr Neil Abbott & Dr Vance Spence, Interaction 48, May 2004
108f Notes on talk by Dr. Byron Hyde Wisconsin CFS Association. 7.10.04
116 The Chief Medical Officers Working Group Report on CFS/ME Action for ME 2002
 

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