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Professor George Mendelson - Full list of Publications

Publications

Psychiatric aspects of litigation and pain. In Schmidt RF, Willis WD (eds): Encyclopedia of Pain, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2007, pp. 1998-2003.

What does psychiatry encompass? In Bloch S, Singh BS (eds): Foundations of Clinical Psychiatry, 3rd edition. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2007, pp. 69-90. (with A.Jablensky)

Survey of methods for the rating of psychiatric impairment in Australia. Journal of Law and Medicine 2004; 11:446-81.

Malingering pain in the medico-legal context. Clinical Journal of Pain 2004; 20:423-32. (with D. Mendelson)

Outcome-related compensation: in search of a new paradigm. In Halligan PW, Bass C, Oakley DA (eds): Malingering and Illness Deception. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 220- 231.

Medicolegal aspects of chronic pain. In Jensen TS, Wilson PR, Rice ASC (eds): Clinical Pain Management: Chronic Pain. London: Edward Arnold, 2003: pp. 173-188. (with D. Mendelson, NM Hadler)

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder – a nomogenic disorder? Proceedings of Expert Evidence: Causation, Proof and Presentation conference, International Institute of Forensic Studies, Monash University, July 2002.

“Functional somatic syndromes” and “idiopathic environmental intolerance”: new labels for the new millennium. Australasian Forensic Psychiatry Bulletin, November 2000, No. 18, pp. 9-12.

Medical expert evidence and reports. Seminar Papers, Advanced Civil Litigation Seminar on “Expert Evidence,” Law Institute of Victoria, Melbourne, 22 May 2000.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and litigation. Australasian Forensic Psychiatry Bulletin, May 1999, No. 15, pp. 3-7.

Forensic psychiatry.  IN:  Freckelton I, Selby H (eds).  Expert Evidence in Family Law. Sydney: LBC Information Services, 1999, pp. 502-89.

Legal aspects of stress-related illness.  Journal of Law and Medicine 1998; 6:60-72.   (with D. Mendelson)

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Past, Present, Future.  In  Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Where to now?  Seminar papers published by the Leo Cussen Institute, Melbourne, 1997, pp. 1.1-
            1.19.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder as psychiatric injury in civil litigation.  Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 1995; 2:53-64.

“Compensation neurosis” revisited: Outcome studies of the effects of litigation.  Journal of Psychosomatic Research 1995; 39:695-706.

Chronic pain and compensation issues.  In  Wall PD, Melzack R (eds):  Textbook of Pain, 3rd edition, Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1994, pp. 1387-400.

Compensation and motivation in relation to musculo-skeletal pain.  In  Vaeroy H, Merskey H (eds): Progress in Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers, 1993, pp. 101-112.
Legal and psychiatric aspects of malingering.  Journal of Law and Medicine 1993; strong1:28-34.   (with D. Mendelson)

Chronic pain and compensation.  In  Tyrer SP (ed):  Psychology, Psychiatry and Chronic Pain, Oxford:  Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd, 1992, pp. 67-78.

Compensation and chronic pain. (Guest Editorial.) Pain 1992; 48:121-123.

The rating of psychiatric impairment in forensic practice: a review.  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 1991; 25:84-94.

Occupational stress.  Journal of Occupational Health and Safety - Australia and New Zealand 1990; 6:175-197.

Psychiatric Aspects of Personal Injury Claims, Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1988, 281p.

The effects of compensation and litigation on disability following compensable injuries.  American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry 1983; 4:97-112.

Emotional factors in chronic pain syndrome and learned pain behaviour.  Lecture given at meeting of the Section of Medico-Legal Practice (A.M.A. Victorian Branch), Melbourne, 16 July 2003.

The pain detective: is pain malingering a valid concept?  Invited lecture at conference on "Pain Assessment and Opiates in the Workplace: Medical, Legal, and Practical Issues", Stanford University, 13 August 2002.

Outcome related compensation: neurosis or deception.  Invited lecture at conference on

Malingering and Illness Deception, Oxford, 7 November 2001.

Psychiatry, compensation, and chronic pain.  Lecture given at meeting of RANZCP Medico-Legal
Group, Melbourne, 15 October 2001.

Prevention and management of chronic pain in primary care.  Lecture given at seminar on “Psychiatry in Primary Care,” Melbourne, 4 August 2001

Report writing for the courts.  Lecture given at Forensic Mental Health Training Seminar, Forensicare, Melbourne, 2 November 2000.

The new approach to assessment of psychiatric injury.  Lecture given at Conference of Members of the General List of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, Melbourne, 18 March
1999.

Reactive depression: myth or reality?  Lecture to the Life and Disability Discussion Group, Melbourne, 25 March 1998.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Past, Present, Future.  Lecture at Continuing Legal Education seminar, Leo Cussen Institute, Melbourne, 27 August 1997.

Issues in psychiatric evaluation and impairment assessment.  Lecture at WorkCover Conciliation Service, Melbourne, 2 July 1997.

Assessments for personal injury claims.  Lecture at the "Psychiatry, Psychology and Law" LLM course, Faculty of Law, Monash University, Melbourne, 23 April 1997.

Psychiatric issues in life insurance and disablement claims.  Lecture to the Life and Disability Discussion Group, Melbourne, 15 October 1996.

Psychiatric disorders at work.  Lecture at Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health course, Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, 13
May 1996.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.  Presentation to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal of Victoria, General Division, Melbourne, 24 February 1995.

Malingering - who decides: clinical opinion or legal verdict?  Lecture given at Seminar, Department of Behavioural Medicine, Hope Hospital, Salford, UK, 18 November 1994.

"Cured by a verdict" - myth or reality?  Lecture given at course on Clinical management of chronic pain, held by The Pain Relief Foundation and The University of Liverpool, at The Pain Research Institute and Centre for Pain Relief, Walton Hospital, Liverpool, 17 November 1994.

The role of psychiatry in personal injury compensation.  Seminar presented at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, 14 November 1994.

Do lawyers make patients more sick? The effects of litigation on pain severity and outcome.  Abstracts of the 4th International Congress of the Israel Pain Association, Tel Aviv, September 1994, p. 63.

The meaning and assessment of "loss of mental powers" in workers' compensation law.  Lecture given at meeting of RANZCP Medico-Legal Group, Melbourne, 14