MAP20070034382The International handbook of road traffic accidents and psychological trauma : current understanding, treatment and law / edited by Edward J. Hickling and Edward B. Blanchard. — Amsterdam [etc.] : Elsevier Science, 1999XXX, 412 p. ; 25 cm.The book comes from a conference that took place in the fall of 1998, in Bristol, England, entitled "Road accidents and the mind: an in-depth study of the psicological symptoms after road accidents", in wich the leading experts, researchers, clinicians, lawyers and insurers shared their works. It goes through different points on the symptoms, the post-traumatic stress disorder, the medical social and legal consecuences for survivors, the web of causation, legal issues on the theeme and psicological treatment