Aisling Campbell – Hysteria and Litigation – Coping with the Real of Trauma
 
THE LETTER 03 (Spring 1995) pages 36-44
 
The topic of my discussion today is one which may not impinge very much on the practice of analysts, but about which, nevertheless, I think analysis has something to say. I am going to talk about those patients, ubiquitous in psychiatric practice, who suffer from “post-traumatic stress disorder” as a result of accidents and who subsequently seek financial redress through personal injury claims. I think that these patients are the...