CHAPTER 9

 

 PSYCHIATRIC INJURIES

 Professor R Mayou

INDEX

68 Introduction

 Severity of suffering; reliability of psychiatric assessment; outcome, a comprehensive view; individual variation.

69 International Classification of mental disorder

70 Psychiatric consequences of major physical illness

 Psychiatric complications: adjustment disorder; depression;  bipolar illness; anxiety; specific phobia; somatoform disorders;  cognitive impairment;  post-concussional syndrome;  hysteria; other psychiatric disorders.

71 Other psychologically determined consequences

 Symptom perception; quality of life; consultation and compliance; medically unexplained physical symptoms.

72 Determinants of psychological symptoms

73 Formulation: differential diagnosis and aetiology

 Formulation; diagnosis; aetiology.

74 Road Traffic Accidents

 Specific factors of road traffic accidents; acute stress disorder;  post traumatic stress disorder; prevalence; travel anxiety;  special problems; rehabilitation: disproportionate disability and pain.

75 Psychiatric consequences and compensation

76 Summary of consequences

77 Treatment

 Assessment; treatment plan; debriefing; depression; phobic travel anxiety;  PTSD.

78 Prognosis

79 Medico-legal examination

 The history; another informant; specialised testing.

80 The report

81 Areas of dispute

 Malingering;  exaggeration;  conscious and unconscious processes; Unexplained

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