I will need to develop a brief introduction to CFS which teaches the practitioner's what this disorder really is and gives them enough understanding of that to effectively work with clients. I will also need to develop a simplified version of this for practitioner's to use to explain to clients. If clients understand the disorder better this will reinforce why they need to comply with aspects of the treatment programme.

This boils down to a really clear explanation of how the illness affects: contact, the self and the ability to act.

Transformations of the self surrounding being-able-to-do and not-being-able-to-do were shown to elucidate the illness process.

It is proposed that the concept ‘energy’ in the participants’ discourse is equivalent to the Mahayana Buddhist concept of ‘contact’. This characterises CFS as a breakdown of contact. Narrative content from the recovered interviewees reflects a reestablishment of contact.

The hypothesis that CFS is a disorder of action is investigated in detail.

It is proposed that the CFS illness process is a dynamical decompensation of the subject’s action loop caused by a breakdown in the process of contact.