Absolutely. I have been working on a poster for that theme. Whenever one hypothesis or speculation is debunked, another one emerges with the same zeal, because apparently there *must* be something psychologically with us, not their speculative hunches. Here is what I have so far:

(16/16) The psychologisation of medically unexplained symptoms in general is a wider and more common issue, but I only wanted to post what little I relearned from briefly revisiting psychologisation of tuberculosis. Writing an article about that specific issue is certainly not on my priority list.

(15/16) These sources are not all blaming tuberculosis all on the psyche but suggest what would today be psycho-neuro-immunological factors. However, if the research into #ME/CFS is anything to go by, everything on this issue needs to be viewed with strong caution about methodological confounders.

(14/16) ^ "sometimes [it] 'is safer to predict the course of the disease on a basis of personality assessment than on the basis of the shadow on x-ray.' As much as one may want to take this with a grain of salt, there is too much truth and logic in it to be too lightly disregarded."

(13/16) ^ "Most of the authors agree that of the psychological factors that play a big role in tuberculosis, the most important are the need for affection and the dependency with its rejection of the passive role and consequent hostility."

(12/16) ^ "It is not claimed that the emotional factors per se are responsible for tuberculosis, but that they lay the groundwork and prepare the soil for the infection or its relapse [...] Most of the authors agree that 'there is no specific personality type' in tuberculous patients."

(11/16) Weinstein 1957: "by eminent specialists [this] book is to bring about an interdisciplinary approach, to treat the tuberculous patient from an holistic viewpoint, rather than a pair of diseased lungs, [...] there is close relationship between emotional factors and tuberculosis."

(10/16) Fantl 1950: "Studies on the psychosomatic aspects of tuberculosis have not brought to light a clearcut correlation between a specific personality structure and susceptibility to the illness. The recommendation is made to look for several rather than for one personality type."

(9/16) Hartz 1944: "limitation to extensive statistical study [...] 'official' case history usually misses the more significant personal issues [which] come to light only in personal relationships or in special personal types of psychiatric study [pTB] a disease of the personality [and] the lungs".

(8/16) ^ ... "patient's precarious psychosocial adjustment almost invariably occurred in the 2-year period preceding the onset or relapse of disease. The manifestations of the life crisis that ensued included high frequencies of broken marriages and changes in residential and occupational status".

(7/16) Holmes et al 1957: "these psychosocial data indicate that cultural conflict contributes significantly to the natural history of tuberculosis. The consequences of ethnic, racial, and economic minority status, and the processes of urbanization and industrialism are clearly evident".

(6/16) This following quote is not in her book and I cannot quickly find a source at hand for it which I remember seeing before but is spot on: "Sontag argues that the degree to which a disease is attributed to psychological factors is in direct proportion to what is unknown about its biology".

(5/16) Of course, in her 1978 book, Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag discusses how tuberculosis was romanticised and moralised in the 19th century much like cancer in the 20th century. She writes that illnesses seen as mysterious or unexplained are often regarded as a moral failing.

(4/16) When prompted further for sources, Google AI did however respond that "historical sources indicate that treating tuberculosis primarily or exclusively as a psychosomatic disease was never the dominant or standard medical practice [this] theory was a highly influential sub-movement".

(3/16) When a treatment for tuberculosis was discovered, the claims about psychological factors were largely abandoned, the same with peptic ulcer. When a real explanation and treatment are discovered and developed for #ME/CFS, hopefully we too will be free from endless psychosomatic speculations.

(2/16) Quickly tracking the history of psychosomatic interpretations of tuberculosis has been difficult. Google AI responded (without good sources) that the identification of the bacteria resonsible was a heavy blow, but there was a resurgence once it was found asymptomatic infections were common.

(1/16) Some professionals might have harped on about psychological factors playing a major role in 'consumption' or tuberculosis, but the Wikipedia articles on TB do not mention psychological factors, presumably because the evidence is too poor or irrelevant to even mention. But ...

(3/3) Decades of scare propaganda = "Socialized medicine is a term used in the [US] to describe and discuss systems of universal health care [...] because of historically negative associations with socialism in American culture, the term is usually used pejoratively in American political discourse."

(2/3) The Rod of Asclepius, a single snake wrapped around a staff, is the historically "correct" symbol of medicine. The Caduceus, with two snakes and wings, has been "mistakenly" used in the US but is associated with commerce & thievery. The Caduceus is accurate for the medical insurance industry.

(1/3) Trump administration wants to Make America Healthy Again? Stop sabotaging science, cease FDA and EPA deregulations, Make Quackery Cringe Again, do something about obscene healthcare costs. The world looks at such abnormal costs with horror. You do not get more healthcare, you get fleeced.