TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY AND MEDICALPSYCHOLOGIC ASPECTS

Abstract

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) changes the psyche of the
injured.
By breaking into the psychic structure, trauma leads to a
shaking of the basis of the injured identity. Thus, it is the
cause of a break into the continuity of being and having.
Firstly, the psyche, occupied by the question of its survival
is weakened. Many psychopathological disorders are
observed.
Secondly, while a psychic readjustment is at work, the
possibility of going beyond the trauma is questioned.
Living daily situations of disability leads the injured constantly to come up against personal, cognitive and psychological limitations. This experience can promote more
awareness too often expected.
TBI is a source of disabilities which concentrates all the
projections at the same time as it feeds a frozen idealization of the previous time.
A personality is at work beyond the TBI, weakened by
cognitive impairment and psycho-emotional imbalance.
Thus, when the medical-legal expertise is carried out,
these findings provide evidence of a post-traumatic stress
syndrome and a psychological suffering that hinders the
rehabilitation of the injured. Future care will focus on
the implementation of specific psychotherapies.