Compensation neurosis.

Compensation neurosis: a too quickly forgotten concept?

There has been great debate concerning the existence and meaning of compensation neurosis. It is included in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-9 and -10 but not listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR). On the eve of publication of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-...

[Compensation neurosis and traffic accidents].

Is there an assault syndrome?

The clinical syndromes now designated posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)I have been discussed in the psychiatric literature for 100 years, beginning with Erichson's description of "railway spine" in 18822 and Page's "nervous shock" in 1883. In the 1880s Oppenheim coined a phrase "traumatic neurosis" which became generally accepted• and even today is frequently found in medical and legal writi...

Predictive validity of neurotic disorders: a 50-year follow-up study.

INTRODUCTION In 1965, Erling Jacobsen (1919-1988) defended his doctoral thesis on neurosis in which he tested the psychoanalytic theory of eridophobia as an internalising hostility factor with a specific causality for anxiety neurosis. He found no marked difference between anxiety neurosis and obsessive-compulsive neurosis, which, however, both differed from hysterical neurosis. The aim of this...

Psychiatric study of patients with severe burn injuries.

About two-thirds of a consecutive series of patients severely injured with burns followed up one year after discharge were found to have psychological sequelae. Duration of hospital stay and the presence of certain mental illnesses were related to the incidence and severity of psychological symptoms. This relation did not apply to the site of the burn and the existence of a claim for compensati...