PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Modlin, Herbert C.
TI  - Compensation Neurosis
DP  - 1986 Sep 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 263--271
VI  - 14
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/14/3/263.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/14/3/263.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law1986 Sep 01; 14
AB  - 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 epithetlcally applied as a simplistic explanation of puzzling postaccident disability. In diagnostic evaluation of postaccident symptoms not attributable to tissue damage, these factors are relevant: secondary gain and loss; alteration in family dynamics; iatrogenic influences, particularly from industrial medical departments; liberalization of workmen's compensation laws; the symbolic significance of money in our culture; the climate of creeping socialism. One consequence stemming from the conceptualization of a compensation neurosis is implicit adherence to the anachronistic mind-body dichotomy.