Compensation neurosis: a too quickly forgotten concept?

Compensation neurosis.

The concept of compensation neurosis developed in the wake of the nineteenth century Industrial Revolution and subsequent enactment of workmen's compensation laws. The nosologic designation of traumatic neurosis was not consensually accepted until after World War II; the compensation label was epithetically applied as a simplistic explanation of puzzling postaccident disability. In diagnostic e...

[Compensation neurosis and traffic accidents].

Chapter 6 Therapeutic Uses

Many people remember vaguely that LSD and other psychedelic drugs were once used experimentally in psychiatry, but few realize how much and how long they were used. This was not a quickly rejected and forgotten fad. Between 1950 and the mid-1960s there were more than a thousand clinical papers discussing 40,000 patients, several dozen books, and six international conferences on psychedelic drug...

[Historical origins of the concept of neurosis].

Imagine that you get such certain awesome experience and knowledge by only reading a book. How can? It seems to be greater when a book can be the best thing to discover. Books now will appear in printed and soft file collection. One of them is this book historical origins of the concept of neurosis. It is so usual with the printed books. However, many people sometimes have no space to bring the...

The Care of the Elderly

?f j^Most of us in our medical training have been taught about the dangers danp Uc^n? a cardiac neurosis; how many of us appreciate the long-term (4) inducing an " I'm too old to do anything " neurosis? res Cental inactivity probably, and physical inactivity certainly, are hoty?nsi^e ^?r much crippling and dependence. It is quite terrifying to witness Walû iekly elderly people become bedridden ...