Abstract
The general public increasingly uses the term psychotrauma in the provision of health care, and the professional public, especially in the demand for compensation. At the same time, the content of this term is perceived differently by a psychiatrist, differently by an operating physician and differently by an internist.
It is therefore understandable that the term psychotrauma includes other facts of the layman, the patient and his lawyer and other attending physicians. The fact that the concept of psychotrauma is nowhere exactly and unambiguously defined in medicine or law means that it is abused or used purposefully.
Therefore, we emphasize the fundamental difference between psychotrauma and negative experience and post-traumatic stress disorder.