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Human emotional suffering has been studied for centuries, but the significance of psychological injuries within legal contexts has only recently been recognized. As the public becomes increasingly aware of the ways in which mental health affects physical - and financial - well-being, psychological injuries comprise a rapidly growing set of personal injury insurance claims. Although the diverse range of problems that people claim to suffer from are serious and often genuine, the largely subjective and unobservable nature of psychological conditions has led to much skepticism about the authenticity of psychological injury claims. Improved assessment methods and research on the economic and physical health consequences of psychological distress has resulted in exponential growth in the litigation related to such conditions. Integrating the history of psychological injuries both from legal and mental health perspectives, this book offers compelling discussions of relevant statutory and case law. Focussing especially on posttraumatic stress disorder, it addresses the current status and empirical limitations of forensic assessments of psychological injuries and alerts readers to common vulnerabilities in expert evidence from mental health professionals. In addition, it also uses the latest empirical research to provide the best forensic methods for assessing both clinical conditions such as posttraumatic stress disorder and for alternative explanations such as malingering. The authors offer state-of-the-art information on early intervention, psychological therapies, and pharmaceutical treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder and stimulating suggestions for further research into this complex phenomenon. A comprehensive guide to psychological injuries, this book will be an indispensable resource for all mental health practitioners, researchers, and legal professionals who work with psychological injuries.

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"Wounded Feelings is the first legal history of emotions in Canada. Through detailed histories of how people litigated emotional injuries like dishonour, humiliation, grief, and betrayal before the Quebec civil courts from 1870 to 1950, it explores the confrontation between people's lived experience of emotion and the legal categories and terminology of lawyers, judges, and courts. Drawing on archival case files, supplemented by newspapers and contemporary legal writings, it examines how individuals narrated their claims of injured feelings, and how the courts assessed those claims, using legal rules, social norms, and the judges' own feelings to validate certain emotional injuries and reject others. The cases reveal both contemporary views of emotion as well as the family, gender, class, linguistic, and racial dynamics that shaped those understandings and their adjudication. Examples include a family's grief over their infant son's death due to a physician's prescription error, a wealthy woman's mortification at being harassed by a conductor aboard a train, and the indignation of two Black men at being denied seats at a Montreal cinema. The book also traces an important legal change in how moral injury was conceptualized in Quebec civil law over the period, as it came to be linked to the developing idea of personality rights. By 1950, the subjective richness of stories of wounded feelings was increasingly put into the language of violated rights, a development with implications for both social understandings of emotion and how individuals presented their emotional injuries in court."--

Personal injuries --- Liability for emotional distress --- אחריות למצוקה רגשית --- Emotional distress, Liability for --- Liability for mental anguish --- Liability for mental injuries --- Liability for nervous shock injuries --- Liability for psychiatric injuries --- Liability for psychic injuries --- Liability for psychic trauma --- Liability for psychological injuries --- Mental anguish, Liability for --- Mental injuries, Liability for --- Nervous shock injuries, Liability for --- Psychiatric injuries, Liability for --- Psychic injuries, Liability for --- Psychic trauma, Liability for --- Psychological injuries, Liability for --- חבות במצוקה רגשית --- נזקי גוף --- Injuries (Law) --- Liability for personal injuries --- Accident law --- Employers' liability --- Torts --- History --- Law and legislation --- Canadian legal history. --- Quebec. --- archaeology. --- civil law. --- civil rights. --- courts. --- emotions. --- family. --- history of law. --- honor. --- honour. --- judges. --- law. --- legal. --- היסטוריה --- Canada East --- Kebek (Province) --- Kébeki (Province) --- Kebekio (Province) --- Kebekku (Province) --- Kebekku-sh --- Kebekkush --- Kempek (Province) --- Kui bei ke (Province) --- Kuibeike (Province) --- Kupaik (Province) --- Kvebek (Province) --- Kvebeka (Province) --- Kvebekas (Province) --- Kvebeks (Province) --- Ḳṿibeḳ (Province) --- Kʻwebek-ju --- Kʻwebek (Province) --- Lower Canada --- Pravintsyi͡a Kvebek --- Province de Québec --- Province of Québec --- Provincia Québec --- Provinsie van Quebec --- Quebecum (Province)