Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is the type of psychological injury most typically cited in personal injury compensation claims.
PTSD is a natural emotional reaction to a deeply shocking and disturbing experience. It is a normal reaction to an abnormal situation and can sometimes occur after someone has lived through or witnessed a frightening incident such as a serious car accident, or was involved in a seriously frightening event.
The links between alcohol and violence are well established, and in nearly half (45%) of all violent incidents in the UK, victims believed offenders to be under the influence of alcohol.
Intoxication is not a defence in law unless it can be argued that the consumption of the intoxicant occurred involuntarily. A central descriptive characteristic of the alcohol dependence syndrome is the desire – sometimes overpowering – to take alcohol, which could be fairly regarded as involuntary consumption under certain circumstances.
Psychodynamics is a branch of psychiatry that deals with unconscious as well as conscious phenomena.
When one is confronted by a feeling or experience that is intolerable or unacceptable, the event is pushed into the unconscious mind and becomes unavailable for ordinary conscious consideration.
Neuropsychiatrists, as all psychiatrists, are medically qualified doctors. They have a special interest in the diagnosis and treatment of clinical conditions that have something to do with physical or organic disorders of the brain.
These can include brain trauma, either blunt or penetrating; the psychiatric effects of strokes and epilepsy, as well as neurodegenerative disorders such as some forms of dementia (though usually not Alzheimer’s disease and other disorders of old age
The number of medico legal problems that are arising these days in dealing with infants under one year of age generally fall into two categories – retinopathy of prematurity and shaken baby syndrome. In addition, ophthalmologists are often asked to assess the vision and visual systems in infants who have suffered from birth trauma or birth damage.
