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Dr Yolande Lucire, PhD, MB, BS, DPM, FRANZCP
Bondi Junction, New South Wales 2022
Australia

lucire@ozemail.com.au

http://www.ozemail.com.au/~lucire

Dr Lucire is a forensic psychiatrist who gives expert evidence in RSI and CTD cases. In the 1980s, Australia experienced an epidemic of work disability attributed to Repetitive Strain Injury, RSI or cumulative trauma disorder, CTD. This disorder is coded in both epidemic and sporadic form as writers' cramp or occupational neurosis in the International Classification of Diseases.
This web page introduces the reader to a completely orthodox approach to RSI and CTDs and demonstrates how the injury theorists are operating in the wrong paradigm.

Dr Lucire has more than thirty years of experience as a clinician and consultant, and has lectured on several aspects of psychiatry at the undergraduate, intern and post-graduate levels.

Dr Lucire can provide consultancy services in all areas of Forensic Psychiatry and she has worked in many jurisdictions in several countries, states and territories.
The work of a forensic psychiatrist is at the interface of law and psychiatry, and of law and medicine. Dr Lucire has provided reports and expertise in cases in all jurisdictions and in many areas which have an interface with the law. Her current interest is in mass hysteria, which has as its forensic representations RSI and False Memory Syndrome.

Dr Lucire's field of experience includes issues in criminality, child custody, compensation, credibility of witnesses, common law, insurance law, superannuation, early health-based retirement, evaluation of disability and injuries product liability issues. Her clients have included the major institutions in Australia, legal aid services, prosecutors, claimants and defendants, major Insurers of Workman's' and Workers Compensation, commercial, public and private liability. Her current practice is largely in civil litigation, a vexed area which tends to be more influenced by political than theoretical considerations. Her efforts include in this area revolve around the provision of an accurate diagnosis,