Publisher's Synopsis
Attorneys and insurance professionals who must swim in the heretofore murky psychiatric waters of Workers Compensation, disability insurance, and damage liability claims can now find help in this book.
Psychiatric Injury is an in-depth reference guide that deals with the interface of law and psychiatry in this niche. It is for those who are without much formal psychiatric training and yet must make sense of psychiatric issues. Here is a medical model for objective, unbiased and thorough, psychiatric diagnosis and treatment. No side of advocacy is favored. Sound clinical work is equally applicable to plaintiff or defense.
For attorneys, this up-to-date handbook will improve your ability to assess a case and to conduct effective direct and cross-examination. It will allow you to concentrate on the clinical issues rather than rely on tricks and unsettling tactics. Your legal questions get clinical answers. It will make your advocacy stronger and your examinations more incisive and revealing.
For insurance professionals (adjusters, nurse case managers, and claims personnel), Psychiatric Injury will empower you to ask pointed clinical questions and know when you have adequate answers. You will have substantiation for your decisions.
Dr. Robert Mignone discusses psychiatric practices, concerns, diagnoses, questions, and controversial topics in this area, illustrating them with composite vignettes of real-life cases. The information reflects consensus mainstream standards. It is practical and made easy to grasp.
Psychiatric Injury will provide you with a working knowledge of many of the clinical issues encountered by the psychiatric expert interfacing with the demandsof legal and insurance professionals in this field of injury, trauma, and damages.
Dr. Robert Mignone attended Amherst College (cum laude) and graduated from Duke Medical School (Alpha Omega Alpha) in 1966, with later internships (internal medicine) and residencies (neurology, psychiatry) at Yale New Haven Hospital, Cornell/New York Hospital, and MGH/Harvard Medical School, respectively. A teacher and academician, Dr. Mignone taught and practiced psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard from 1974 to 1988 before opening Gulf Coast Health Services, a multi-specialty mental health group in Sarasota, Florida. He has thirty-five years as a psychiatrist in private practice; twenty years of Workers' Compensation, torts and disability insurance evaluations, with several hundred Independent Medical Examinations (IME) and depositions.
