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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