Craig Purshouse on Rethinking negligence liability for ‘pure psychiatric damage’: an analogy with assault (Legal Studies)

"Rethinking negligence liability for ‘pure psychiatric damage’: an analogy with assault"Craig PurshouseLegal StudiesPublished online: July 2026Abstract: Orthodox accounts of negligence liability for ‘pure psychiatric damage’ view it as protecting the claimants’ interest in their psychiatric health and often attack English law’s restrictive duty of care rules for inadequately safeguarding