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Medicine and the law

Automatism and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (D. Brahams [1990] The Lancet, i, 1333)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Alexander M. P. Kellam
Alexander M. P. Kellam*
Affiliation:
Whitchurch Hospital and University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff CF4 4XW
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This comment by Diana Brahams, Barrister at Law, is the latest on automatism in her regular series in The Lancet on the Law as it affects medicine. It is a subject to which she has had occasion to return frequently (Brahams, 1983a, 1983b, 1989) as several recent cases have developed the legal concept of automatism to the increasing confusion of many psychiatrists. Automatism has also been thoroughly discussed in a recent monograph in Psychological Medicine by Peter Fenwick (1990) which is to be recommended to anyone having to prepare a report dealing with this problem.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , February 1991 , pp. 96 - 98
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