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Use of a Psychophysiological Script-driven Imagery Experiment to Study Trauma-related Dissociation in Borderline Personality Disorder
Published on: March 8, 2018
[Trauma and imputability]
1Service d'Ophtalmologie Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Av. Hippocrate, 10, B-1200 Bruxelles.
Abstract:
The imputability of a bodily damage to a traumatism and the bond of causality are at the basis of the mission of the medical expert in the procedure that leads to indemnification in reparation of a suffered prejudice. The aim of this paper is to enumerate the bases on which the expert grounds to prove the imputability and the bond of causality. He will also insist on the final role of the jurist who, grounding his opinion on the elements of the expert appraisement, will establish the causality and hence the responsibility and the level of reparation.
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