Litigation-induced trauma sensitisation (LITS) - a potential negative outcome of the process of litigation.

From a personal, professional and theoretical perspective, the author (a clinical psychologist) tenders that the current practices of litigation after traumatic injury, especially the demand for repeated interviews of victims, actually exacerbate the trauma replication This process, which essentially sensitises the victim, interferes with and deliberates down the trauma resolution proces This delay is therapeutically dear for the victim, time dear for the courts and financially of great price for the insurers, While appreciating the ne of health, legal and insurance personnel for detailed information about the circumstance and the physical and psychological injuries to the victim in compensation matters, the author